Cheresheva came to Uzgaç last year to look into the case of three Iraqi Yazidi men who, after trying to cross the border, were allegedly beaten by the Bulgarian police and sent back across by foot. It was late winter, and Cheresheva learned that a Turkish autopsy report had concluded that two of the men had frozen to death and the bodies showed signs of battery. One of the men had sustained a serious leg injury. Residents of Uzgaç eventually found their bodies and carried them to town. The third Yazidi man had survived the beating and was in an intensive care unit in Turkey until he was deported to Iraq.