Left to die: UK-backed Bulgarian border guards let boys freeze

Left to die: UK-backed Bulgarian border guards let boys freeze

A few days after Christmas, while Bulgaria was carpeted in snow, the bodies of three Egyptian boys were found by human rights defenders that I was volunteering with.  Seifalla Elbeltagy, 15, Ahmed Samra, 16, and Ahmed Elawdan, 17, all died of hypothermia alone in a forest.  This was despite the fact that the emergency services had been aware that they were in grave danger more than a day earlier. In another part of the country at around the same…