Bittel Alexander Davydovich

Bittel Aleksandr Davydovich — Colonel, Acting Head of the Department (from July 2021 to May 2022) — Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Tyumen Region.

According to open registry data, the Head of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Tyumen Region, being a representative of authority and an official exercising general leadership over the units and institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Tyumen Region, 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, gave a criminal order to subordinate officials, internal service servicemen, for systematic cruel treatment of prisoners of war, which was expressed in inflicting bodily injuries, traumas, and mutilations upon them, as well as humiliating their personal dignity.