Michal Cizek/AFP via Getty Images, FILE - PHOTO: In this March 5, 2008, file photo, freedom activist Min Zin (far right) attends the Dissidents and Freedom forum at the Czech Foreign Ministry in Prague.

    China wrongfully detaining US citizen, State Department declares

    The State Department officially declared on Thursday that a U.S. citizen who was arrested by the Chinese government in June was wrongfully detained, and pushed for his immediate release. U Min Zin, a longtime scholar on the politics of Myanmar, traveled to Yunnan, China, at the invitation of the Chinese government and was arrested on…

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