Qatar Apologizes for Airport Strip Searches and Pursues Charges

Qatar Apologizes for Airport Strip Searches and Pursues Charges

The government called the invasive examinations of women on 10 flights at Doha's airport this month “wholly inconsistent with Qatar's culture and values.”A Qatar Airways plane at the Doha airport where on Oct. 2 women were strip-searched and in some cases subjected to examinations to determine whether they had recently given birth.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBy Megan SpeciaQatar's government said on Friday that it had referred several people for prosecution over invasive medical examinations of women aboard 10 planes in Doha this month, after an investigation into the circumstances.In a harrowing episode on Oct. 2, women on the flights at Hamad International Airport near Doha, the country's capital, were strip-searched and some were subjected to examinations to determine whether they had recently given birth after an abandoned newborn was found