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Anna (not her real name) says the Senate inquiry treated her experience in Doha as a footnote.

Strip-search victim lashes Qatar inquiry as fresh accusations emerge

In 2020, Anna was pulled off a Qatar Airways plane and invasively searched. She says the inquiry probing the rejection of more Qatar flights was a wasted chance to question the country’s human rights record.

  • Angus Thompson

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Anna*. one of the Australian women taken from a Qatar flight in Doha last year and searched. She is contemplating taking legal action against Qatar. *Not her real name.

Australian women invasively examined on Qatar flight set to sue after ‘being ignored’

Seven of the 13 women hauled off a Qatar Airways flight and forced to undergo invasive examinations at Doha airport are threatening legal action against the airline and Qatari authorities.

  • Sarah Abo and Tracey Hannaford
Judicial police officers working in the Airport Security Department broke the law, Qatar's public prosecutor said.

Qatar airport police officers charged over invasive searches of women

Criminal charges have been laid against an unspecified number of police officers working at Qatar's Hamad airport after women said they were invasively searched there last month.

Qatari officials say the matter has been referred to prosecutors

Payne welcomes Qatari apology but says compensation 'a matter for them'

Australian women were among a group of international travellers forced to undergo invasive probes after a premature baby was found in the airport toilets.

  • Latika Bourke and Jennifer Duke
A surveillance image, obtained by Doah News, shows officials holding an allegedly abandoned baby at Hamad International Airport.

Qatari scandal: some answers at last

Qatar's ''offensive'' response to the discovery of an abandoned baby left female passengers traumatised, and the nation's reputation in tatters.

  • Deborah Snow
Qatari officials say the matter has been referred to prosecutors

Qatar opens criminal probe over invasive search on Australian passengers

Australian women were among a group of international travellers forced to undergo invasive probes after a premature baby was found in the airport toilets.

  • Latika Bourke
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Senator Marise Payne.

'Waiting for report': Women on nine other planes were stopped and searched at Doha airport

Dozens more women from around the world could have been subjected to invasive body searches at Doha airport after it was revealed a total of 10 planes were caught up in the scandal.

  • Anthony Galloway
Women, including a mother with her children, on the Qatar Airways flight to Sydney were subjected to invasive physical searches.

AFP concerned it doesn't have jurisdiction to investigate Doha airport searches

The Australian Federal Police is trying to work out whether it has jurisdiction to investigate the invasive body searches of 13 Australian women at Doha airport.

  • Anthony Galloway
Women, including a mother with her children, on the Qatar Airways flight to Sydney were subjected to invasive physical searches.

'Some were upset, angry, one was crying': significant concerns over invasive Doha searches

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has described an incident at Doha airport, where 13 Australian women were invasively searched without their consent, as a "grossly disturbing" and "concerning" set of events.

  • Mary Ward and Anthony Galloway
Women on the Qatar Airways flight to Sydney were subjected to invasive physical searches.

'Gross violation': Australian women invasively searched at Doha airport after premature baby found

Thirteen Australian women have been forced into invasive physical searches after airport terminal staff found a premature baby abandoned in a bathroom.

  • Jenny Noyes and Anthony Galloway

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