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Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over bodily searches
DOHA, QATAR, JUL 24 – The women claim negligence and seek damages for invasive, non-consensual searches linked to an airport security operation after a newborn was found abandoned, with the case proceeding to trial.
- Five Australian women won the right to sue Qatar Airways after being strip-searched at Doha airport, following an appeal.
- The women seek damages for alleged unlawful physical contact and false imprisonment, which resulted in mental health issues.
- The case will move to trial in the Federal Court, according to their lawyer, Damian Sturzaker.
- The incident has been condemned internationally, including by Australia's then foreign minister, as a grossly disturbing event.
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The Australian Federal Court has ruled that five Australian women can sue Qatar Airways after armed guards forced them off a plane and the women were later subjected to gynecological examinations without their consent.
Five Australian women have been granted the right to sue Qatar Airways over their treatment on a 2020 flight. They were removed from the plane and subjected to an internal investigation after a newborn baby was found in a trash bin at Doha Airport. The incident sparked global outrage. The Australian Prime Minister called the incident "abhorrent," and Amnesty International said the women's rights had been brutally violated. The Qatari government …
Women dragged off flight & stripped searched in Qatar given green light to sue
FIVE women who were allegedly hauled off from a Qatar Airways flight by armed cops and strip-searched have won the right to sue the airline. They were among dozens of women who were allegedly subjected to invasive examinations after a newborn baby was found abandoned at Doha’s Hamad Airport. NineCCTV shows authorities in Qatar holding a baby that was dumped in a toilet bin at Doha’s Hamad Airport[/caption] NineDozens of women who were allegedly …
Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over ‘unlawful physical contact’
Qatari authorities took dozens of women off multiple flights and subjected them to nonconsensual bodily searches after a newborn girl was found abandoned at the Doha airport in October 2020
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