The World : Soviets Free Dissident’s Son

Soviet authorities have freed the teen-age son of dissident Anatoly Koryagin from a labor camp and told the family to apply for permission to leave the Soviet Union, a West German-based human rights group said. The elder Koryagin, one of the best-known Soviet dissidents, was released from prison last month after serving five years of a 12-year term for accusing authorities of sending sane dissidents to psychiatric hospitals. The International Assn. for Human Rights said in Frankfurt that it reached Koryagin by telephone at his home in the city of Kharkov and was told that 19-year-old Ivan had returned home Wednesday. It said that the youth got into trouble because he strongly defended his father and that he was convicted of “hooliganism” in 1985.