Qatar communicated lament on Wednesday over the treatment of the female voyagers after Australia said ladies on 10 flights went through intrusive physical hunts following the disclosure of a surrendered infant at the nation’s global air terminal.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, talking about the issue unexpectedly, told correspondents in Canberra that “Australia’s solid protests and perspectives” about the occurrence including Australian voyagers on October 2 were broadly shared, without expounding.

Qatar’s executive, Sheik Khalid canister Khalifa receptacle Abdulaziz Al Thani, has requested an examination concerning the episode, where ladies had to land planes at Hamad International Airport and go through an assessment in ambulances.

A child young lady had before been found in a garbage bin at the air terminal, hidden in a plastic sack in what “seemed, by all accounts, to be a stunning and shocking endeavor to execute her,” the Qatari government’s correspondences office said in an announcement.

“While the point of the desperately concluded hunt was to forestall the culprits of the horrendous wrongdoing from getting away, the State of Qatar laments any trouble or encroachment on the individual flexibilities of any voyager brought about by this activity,” the announcement said. The child, whose mother has not been found, is protected and getting clinical consideration in Doha, it added.

Australian authorities told an administration board hearing in Canberra on Wednesday that notwithstanding 18 ladies on a Qatar Airways trip to Sydney, another nine flights had been looked and Australia was working intimately with different nations on the issue, without naming the nations.

“Different nations influenced totally share Australia’s perspectives and the quality of Australia’s perspectives,” said Frances Adamson, secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. “This isn’t by any standard ordinary conduct and the Qataris perceive that, are shocked by it, don’t need it to happen once more.”

Australia was advised of the episode by a female Australian ambassador who was on the flight and was “stunned at what occurred”, Adamson added. The Australian ambassador was not looked.

The aftereffects of the examination will be imparted to global accomplices, the Qatari explanation said.

“The Qatari examination is to figure out which laws may have been abused, any people mindful, and suggest disciplinary and prosecutorial activity where proper,” a source with information on the examination told Reuters.

Common freedoms Watch said in an announcement Qatar ought to restrict constrained gynecological tests, and it was additionally worried at the conditions that may have prompted a child being deserted. Sexual relations without any father present are condemned in Qatar, with emergency clinics needed to report pregnant ladies to specialists.

Basic freedoms Watch senior specialist Rothna Begum said the supposed activities of Qatari specialists had “bombed numerous ladies – the obscure lady obviously compelled to conceive an offspring in an air terminal latrine, incapable to request help with her work or on how to manage the infant, and the various ladies allegedly pulled off the plane for assessments”.