The government of Qatar has apologized for the forced gynecological examinations that women were subjected to at Doha airport. That happened after the discovery of an abandoned baby.
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The Persian Gulf oil-state government says it regrets the violation of women’s individual freedom and the suffering they have suffered. “ Even if the purpose of these investigations was to prevent the escape of the perpetrators of a terrible crime, the State of Qatar deplores the suffering or violation of the individual freedoms that this action may have caused travelers, ” a statement reads. read a government site.
The Australian Government had filed a complaint to the authorities in Qatar about the humiliation and internal investigation of Australian women at Hamad International Airport in capital Doha. The investigations took place on October 2, after a premature baby was found wrapped in plastic in a trash can in a toilet room. “It seemed like a shocking and horrifying attempt to kill her,” the Qatar authorities say. The girl is still receiving medical care.
No permission asked
In a search for the baby’s mother, women were arrested at the airport and forced to take off their underwear and undergo an internal examination in an ambulance, the news site reports Seven News. The investigation had to determine whether they had recently given birth to a child. The women were not asked for permission. They had also been told nothing about the baby’s find.
The Australian women speak of a ‘horrible violation of their rights’. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Wednesday that it is now clear that female passengers from ten flights have been subject to gynecological examinations. That is more women than was initially thought. In the Australian Parliament, Payne described the state of affairs at Doha airport as “grossly disturbing” and “insulting”.
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