The Scholars at Risk Network issued a letter to the Chinese government urging for the immediate release of Min Zin, a U.S. citizen and Political Science Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, who was detained by authorities while attending an academic workshop at a Chinese university. As an association that represents over 10,000 U.S. and internationally based professors, practitioners, and students of political science, APSA expresses support for the Scholars at Risk Network letter and echoes the call for the immediate and unconditional release of Min Zin.
Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of more than 600 universities and colleges in over 40 countries dedicated to protecting the human rights of scholars around the world, and raising awareness, understanding of, and respect for the principles of academic freedom and its constituent freedoms of expression, opinion, thought, association, and travel.
Min Zin, an American citizen and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, is the co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar), a well-regarded, independent think tank which conducts open-source research on Burma’s socio-economic, political and conflict landscape as well as China’s influence in Burma’s domestic affairs. Min Zin’s writings and commentary on Burma have been featured across international publications and scholarly journals. Read more
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