Group claims women arrested at Gaza protest were strip searched by gardaí

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett said the Mothers Against Genocide protest ‘descended to the strip searching’ of peaceful female protesters (Brian Lawless/PA)

The Mothers Against Genocide group said it will file a complaint to the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission over allegations that some of the women who were arrested at a group protest were strip searched and one was subjected to a cavity search.

A total of 14 people who attended the Mothers Against Genocide group protest against the Israeli war in Gaza were arrested after an entrance to Leinster House in Dublin was blocked on Monday morning.