Babaev Samir Bakhadurovich

Babaev Samir Bakhadurovich is a Lieutenant Colonel, acting head of the Main Directorate (from December 2022 to July 2023) — Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for Perm Krai.

According to open registry data, the head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Perm Krai, being a representative of authority and an official exercising general leadership over the units and institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Perm Krai, and being aware of the provisions of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, acted intentionally, in violation of the norms of the said Convention, pursuing the goal of inflicting physical and moral suffering on servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and issued a criminal order to subordinate officials and internal service servicemen for systematic cruel treatment of prisoners of war, which manifested in inflicting bodily injuries, traumas, and mutilations upon them, as well as humiliating their personal dignity.