U.S. labels American academic detained in China as wrongfully held

The State Department has designated American citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained by China after reviewing his June 3 detention in southwestern China. Officials said he had been invited by the Chinese government to attend an academic conference.

Chinese authorities said in June that Min Zin was suspected of espionage and endangering national security, without providing further details. His brother denied the accusations and said Min Zin was in China for an academic workshop.

Min Zin, who became a U.S. citizen in 2012, leads a Myanmar policy institute and is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. The designation makes him the second American academic declared wrongfully detained in recent months.

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