Women from 10 flights were taken for medical examinations in Qatar, Australian foreign minister says

Marise Payne says 18 Australians on the Qatar Airways flight were subjected to compulsory intimate searches at Hamad international airport in Doha

At least 18 Australian women from a Qatar Airways flight were subjected to medical examinations at Doha airport and a total of 10 flights were affected, the foreign affairs minister has said.

The women were subject to an intimate medical examination at Doha international airport on 2 October, in what the airport said was an effort to find the mother of a newborn baby found in a bathroom.

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