Muslim woman barred from flight after refusing body scan

Published: 11:07AM GMT 03 March 2010

Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the scanners as an advance of remoteness

The newcomer was at Manchester Airport for a moody to Islamabad when she was comparison at pointless to pass by the security screen.

She was warned she would not be authorised to house the Pakistan International Airlines moody if she did not imitate with the ask but she motionless to pledge her ticket.

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Her womanlike travelling messenger additionally left the airfield after she cited ""medical reasons"" for not wanting to go by the scanner.

More than 15,000 people have already upheld by the �80,000 Rapiscan appurtenance at the airport"s Terminal 2. The Government introduced the scanner at Heathrow and Manchester airports last month.

Security staff make make use of of the X-ray appurtenance to check for any secluded weapons or explosives but it has captivated critique for additionally display transparent outlines of passengers" genitals. Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the scanners as an advance of privacy.

Sources at Manchester Airport pronounced the moody to Pakistan about dual weeks ago was bustling and that no alternative passengers objected when comparison to go by the full physique scanner after check-in.

The womanlike newcomer who declined on healing drift was pronounced to be endangered since she had an infection.

It is accepted the women might be the initial passengers in the UK to be barred from receiving a moody after refusing to contention to the scan. Heathrow Airport pronounced it could not criticism on particular cases.

A Manchester Airport mouthpiece said: ""Two womanlike passengers who were requisitioned to fly out of Terminal 2 refused to be scanned for healing and eremite reasons.

""In suitability with the Government gauge on scanners, they were not available to fly.

""Body scanning is a big shift for business who are comparison underneath the new manners and we are wakeful that remoteness concerns are on the customers" minds, that is because we have put despotic procedures to encourage them that their remoteness will be protected.""

Last month, Transport Secretary Lord Adonis stressed that an halt formula of make use of on the make make use of of of physique scanners stipulated that passengers would not be comparison ""on the basement of personal characteristics"".

He stressed that images prisoner by physique scanners are rught away deleted after the newcomer has left by and that security staff are reasonably lerned and supervised.