A Rostov region court has cancelled the ruling of a district court in Rostov-on-Don to send Vadim Domnitsky, found guilty of threatening to murder worshippers in a synagogue, for treatment at a special medical institution.

His lawyer Igor Tkachyov said that the court partly satisfied his protest.

In the middle of June, the Kirovsky district court sentenced Domnitsky to compulsory psychotherapy for perpetrating an act of hooliganism and threatening murder in a synagogue.

On January 13, 2006, Rostov State Medical University student Domnitsky got drunk and entered the local synagogue. He told guards that he wanted to talk to a rabbi about his conversion to Judaism.

Upon gaining entry to the synagogue, the student started swearing and shouting anti-Semitic remarks. He threatened to kill the rabbi, worshippers and guards with a broken bottle.

The synagogue’s guards managed to seize the student, who was later arrested by police.

IFR