Soviets Deny 8 Permission to Leave

MOSCOW — Eight Soviets have been denied permission to leave the country because of security reasons, a government agency said Thursday in an unusually detailed public report on emigration procedure.

The Soviet Administration on Visas and the Registration of Foreigners said applicants whose petitions were rejected include Vladimir Slepak, Alexander Lerner, Yuli Kosharovsky and Valery Soifer, all Jews who have long sought to leave the Soviet Union.

The agency’s announcement came in a a statement published in the newspaper Verchernaya Moskva. The agency apparently tried to show that it was complying with regulations that went into effect in January requiring Soviet authorities to tell people why a request for an exit visa has been refused.

The agency said that for “reasons connected with the security of the state,” exit visas have been denied to Slepak, Lerner, Soifer, Kosharovsky and to four other people, Y.I. Khasin, N.B. Khasina, I.I. Sud and Y.G. Rakhlenko.

Meanwhile, the Bukovsky Foundation, an Amsterdam-based human rights group, reported that Soviet psychiatrist Dr. Anatoly Koryagin refused to sign a plea for clemency that would allow his release from prison.

Koryagin, 49, was sentenced in 1981 to seven years’ labor camp and five years’ internal exile for investigating cases of people being placed in psychiatric clinics for political reasons.