Qatar has expressed “regret” over the strip-search Australian and other women were subjected to ahead of flights leaving Doha this month. The Gulf state also released further details about the abandonment of a newborn in an airport trash can that led to the forced examinations.
On Oct. 2, the newborn girl was discovered alive in the trash can at Hamad International Airport in Doha in what the government described as a "horrible crime." In their quest to find the mother, authorities are reported to have inspected the genitals of female passengers without their consent to determine whether they had recently given birth. Australia, which had a number of citizens among those searched, condemned the inspections as “grossly, grossly disturbing” this week.
