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.
It is more than a year since 13 Australian women were subjected to a grossly invasive physical examination at Qatar airport. They have yet to receive an explanation or an apology.
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.
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.
Australian women were among a group of international travellers forced to undergo invasive probes after a premature baby was found in the airport toilets.
Qatar's''offensive''response to the discovery of an abandoned baby left female passengers traumatised,and the nation's reputation in tatters.
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.
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.
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.
Thirteen Australian women have been forced into invasive physical searches after airport terminal staff found a premature baby abandoned in a bathroom.