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Doha airport personnel allegedly conducted invasive gynecological exams on female passengers after baby found in toilet
By Theresa Braine
New York Daily News |
Oct 25, 2020 at 9:38 PM
They were pulled off a flight, taken to ambulances and forced to undergo an invasive gynecological exam in what one official has called “state-sanctioned sexual assault.”
And they weren’t even told why.
Australia is demanding answers after women, including 13 Australians, were pulled off Qatar Airlines flight QR 908 between Doha and Sydney on Oct. 2 after it landed for a transit stop at the Hamad International Airport in Doha in Qatar, reported News.com.au.
A premature baby had been found, alive but abandoned, in a terminal bathroom.
Qatar Airways personnel “examined women internally,” as BBC News put it, in a purported effort to find the woman who had just given birth.
“Medical professionals expressed concern to officials about the health and welfare of a mother who had just given birth and requested she be located prior to departing,” an airport spokesperson said, according to BBC News.
An international incident has ensued as Australia demands an explanation for the violation of its citizens.
They certainly felt violated, their health and welfare not taken care of at all. And none of them turned out to be the mother.
“Most of them were very upset,” Dr. Wolfgang Babeck, one of 34 passengers on the flight, told The Guardian.
First everyone waited onboard the plane for three hours, he said, then the airline requested all women on the flight to disembark. They returned distraught.
“At least one of them was crying,” Babeck told The Guardian. “They were discussing what had happened and saying that it was unacceptable and disgusting.”
The flight then took off, and the women told Babeck what had happened.
“They were taken by security personnel into the cellar, not knowing what was going on,” he told The Guardian. “And then they were presented to a female doctor and they were basically strip-searched and had to take everything downwards off, all their clothes, even their underwear. And then the doctor would try to feel in the uterus and stomach area or lower abdomen to see whether they may have given birth recently.”
At least one of them was told that authorities were trying to locate the mother of an abandoned baby found in the bathroom, he said.
Women were taken off other flights as well, according to reports.
Airport spokespeople have said that the baby is alive and being cared for by medical and social workers, BBC News reported.
Australia’s government is demanding answers and reparation.
“The Australian Government is aware of concerning reports regarding the treatment of female passengers, including Australian citizens, at Doha (Hamad) airport in Qatar,” the country’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said in a statement obtained by Australia’s 7NEWS, which first reported the incident. “We have formally registered our serious concerns regarding the incident with Qatari authorities and have been assured that detailed and transparent information on the event will be provided soon.”
Human rights advocates also joined the call.
“It is distressing, and disturbing, and a gross violation of these women’s human rights,” Amnesty International Australia Director Samantha Klintworth told 7NEWS. “There needs to be a thorough and independent investigation and all of those involved need to be held to account.”
Individual government officials expressed outrage as well.
Wow
Doha airport personnel allegedly conducted invasive gynecological exams on female passengers after baby found in toilet
They were pulled off a flight, taken to ambulances and forced to undergo an invasive gynecological exam in what one official has called “state-sanctioned sexual assault.” And they weren…
www.nydailynews.com
Doha airport personnel allegedly conducted invasive gynecological exams on female passengers after baby found in toilet
By Theresa Braine
New York Daily News |
Oct 25, 2020 at 9:38 PM
They were pulled off a flight, taken to ambulances and forced to undergo an invasive gynecological exam in what one official has called “state-sanctioned sexual assault.”
And they weren’t even told why.
Australia is demanding answers after women, including 13 Australians, were pulled off Qatar Airlines flight QR 908 between Doha and Sydney on Oct. 2 after it landed for a transit stop at the Hamad International Airport in Doha in Qatar, reported News.com.au.
A premature baby had been found, alive but abandoned, in a terminal bathroom.
Qatar Airways personnel “examined women internally,” as BBC News put it, in a purported effort to find the woman who had just given birth.
“Medical professionals expressed concern to officials about the health and welfare of a mother who had just given birth and requested she be located prior to departing,” an airport spokesperson said, according to BBC News.
An international incident has ensued as Australia demands an explanation for the violation of its citizens.
They certainly felt violated, their health and welfare not taken care of at all. And none of them turned out to be the mother.
“Most of them were very upset,” Dr. Wolfgang Babeck, one of 34 passengers on the flight, told The Guardian.
First everyone waited onboard the plane for three hours, he said, then the airline requested all women on the flight to disembark. They returned distraught.
“At least one of them was crying,” Babeck told The Guardian. “They were discussing what had happened and saying that it was unacceptable and disgusting.”
The flight then took off, and the women told Babeck what had happened.
“They were taken by security personnel into the cellar, not knowing what was going on,” he told The Guardian. “And then they were presented to a female doctor and they were basically strip-searched and had to take everything downwards off, all their clothes, even their underwear. And then the doctor would try to feel in the uterus and stomach area or lower abdomen to see whether they may have given birth recently.”
At least one of them was told that authorities were trying to locate the mother of an abandoned baby found in the bathroom, he said.
Women were taken off other flights as well, according to reports.
Airport spokespeople have said that the baby is alive and being cared for by medical and social workers, BBC News reported.
Australia’s government is demanding answers and reparation.
“The Australian Government is aware of concerning reports regarding the treatment of female passengers, including Australian citizens, at Doha (Hamad) airport in Qatar,” the country’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said in a statement obtained by Australia’s 7NEWS, which first reported the incident. “We have formally registered our serious concerns regarding the incident with Qatari authorities and have been assured that detailed and transparent information on the event will be provided soon.”
Human rights advocates also joined the call.
“It is distressing, and disturbing, and a gross violation of these women’s human rights,” Amnesty International Australia Director Samantha Klintworth told 7NEWS. “There needs to be a thorough and independent investigation and all of those involved need to be held to account.”
Individual government officials expressed outrage as well.
