E/CN.4/1993/62 page 105 (h) There is no restriction on the admission of students of the Jewish faith into Syrian universities. Many of them are currently pursuing higher studies in foreign institutes and universities in all fields of specialization. (i) Members of the Jewish faith are obliged to perform compulsory military service. They are not exempt, although their enlistment is deferred, in the light of the numerous applications for deferral that they have made to the competent authorities, by reason of the small size of their community and in order to enable them to support their families. (j) No member of the Jewish community has been subjected to administrative or arbitrary detention, and there have been no instances of enforced or involuntary disappearance. No member of the community has been subjected to torture during detention, while any member against whom a judicial sentence is handed down is permitted to receive periodic visits from his relatives and enjoys good, healthy conditions of detention." Ukraine 65. In a communication sent on 9 October 1992 addressed to the Government of Ukraine, the following was transmitted by the Special Rapporteur: "According to the information received, the cathedral of the Ukranian Orthodox Church, which is under the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church, was seized in Lutsk on 16 August 1992. It has been reported that on 12 August 1992, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church addressed a petition to the Regional Representative of the President, Mr. Yuri Lernartovich, requesting to become the keeper of the cathedral in Lutsk and its grounds although this cathedral had never been in its possession previously. It has been alleged that the aforementioned official granted the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church control of this property, which reportedly belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, without previously conducting an inquiry to determine its legal ownership. According to the sources, the cathedral of Lutsk was taken by force in the night of 16 August 1992 and numerous members of the Ukrainian Orthodox clergy, seminary students and members of the laity, who were keeping a prayer vigil in the cathedral courtyard in order to defend it, were reportedly attacked and beaten. It has been reported that local representatives of the Ukrainian Congress, Mr. Gennadi Gennadivich Kozhevnikov and Mr. Alexander V. Gordidima, had organized a public rally which resulted in the storming of the church property. According to the allegations received, the gate of the cathedral property was opened forcibly and the Ukrainian Orthodox Bishop of Lutsk and Volynia, Bartholomei, was ordered to hand over the keys, which he refused. It was reported that the padlock on the cathedral door was subsequently cut and the people inside beaten with sticks and steel pipes. It has been alleged further that the cathedral, the diocese offices, the seminary, including medical aid, evangelical materials and a desktop publishing system, as well as all private and personal property were also seized on that occasion.