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Prosecutors said that “airport police officers face penalties of up to 3 years in prison.”
They pointed out that “an unknown number of police officers who worked in the airport security department were charged after” acting unilaterally. “
A statement published by the British “Sky News”: “Investigations revealed that some employees of the airport security department acted unilaterally by summoning medical personnel to carry out a medical examination on some of the passengers, believing that what they were doing was within the law”.
The crisis between Australia and Qatar worsened last October, after Australian travelers revealed that they had been subjected to humiliating forced examinations, and the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the incident and described it as “aggression”, and demanded that the Qatari authorities “give an answer about what happened, but the reactions did not stop at that limit.”
In a form of interaction with the case, Australian politicians from various parties withdrew from a dinner hosted by the Qatari Embassy in Australia, protesting the insult Australian women received at the Doha airport.
The left-wing Australian Labor Party asked Secretary of State Maryse Payne to call her Qatari counterpart and register a protest at what happened, because “Australians are angry that the citizens of their country have been subjected to degrading treatment.”
Several victims said they felt “like criminals”, and the Australian show “60 Minutes” featured the testimony of Jane, a nurse who was among the women forced to undergo humiliating forced examinations to make sure they had not given birth.
Jane spoke about the “horror” she felt and told the show, “I thought about what would happen to me in this country (ie Qatar) if they saw that I was truly guilty.”
“I was scared and wondered why they called me to get off the plane,” said Jane, who burst into tears during the show and then said, “There was no other option but to comply.”
Then the Australian traveler began to think of many things while he was being driven and inspected: “I was wondering: Are they kidnapping us or are they taking us somewhere?”
He said that Qatari security men arrived on the plane carrying weapons, and “we did not know at the time whether it was hostages or terrorism,” while the passengers were in a state of astonishment.
The communication was not carried out as required with these Australian travelers, according to the program, and “the Qatari officials do not know English.”
Airport authorities had done this after discovering a girl “dumped” in a garbage can in an airport bathroom, she was rescued, and her mother was later identified.
