Dissident Back in Soviet Hospital, Daughter Says

Soviet authorities have returned Serafim Yevsyukov, who has been trying to emigrate with his family for nearly 10 years, to a psychiatric hospital, his daughter said Sunday.

Ludmilla Yevsyukov said her father, released Jan. 24 after six months in a psychiatric hospital, was taken to the Central Moscow Regional Psychiatric Clinic after the family was detained by police Saturday.

She said her father was sent to the clinic after being examined by eight psychiatrists.

Ludmilla Yevsyukov, 26, said she and her parents were at Pushkin Square, a main gathering point for protesters, Saturday night for their weekly demonstration underscoring their demands to emigrate.

Plainclothes agents tore up their protest signs, knocked the Yevsyukovs down and dragged them to a nearby police station, she said.

She and her mother were released after about two hours, Yevsyukov said.

The elder Yevsyukov, a retired Aeroflot airline navigator, was force-fed pills or given injections when he refused to take tranquilizers during his hospitalization last year, his daughter said.