Surgeon accuses airport of racism after he's stopped as 'white travellers waved through'

A surgeon claims he was racially targeted when Manchester Airport

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security told him to queue for a body scanner while white travellers

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were allegedly directed through a metal detector.

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Professor Aali Sheen, who was travelling with two of his children

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said he also saw a Muslim family being asked to use the body scanner shortly after him.

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"It was racist. It was clear racial triaging," he told

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The doctor has since made a complaint and an investigation found that the reason

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he was told to use the body scanner was to "adhere to the requisite ratio of body scanner

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A spokesman said: "All policies and procedures... were followed."

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