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China detains US citizen and Myanmar activist Min Zin

The detention of the U.S. scholar and former Myanmar democracy activist has raised concerns among rights advocates and academics.

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Jun 15, 2026
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For decades, Min Zin stood among Myanmar’s best-known advocates for democratic reform, surviving exile after the military crushed the country’s 1988 pro-democracy uprising and later building a career as a respected scholar and policy analyst.

Now the U.S. citizen, University of California, Berkeley doctoral candidate and fou…

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