Radio Free Asia reported (April 10) that Zhang Pancheng, a former security guard at Peking University, was arrested because he posted a video on the Internet last November criticizing China’s human rights situation and Xi Jinping for giving out generous foreign aid to 3rd world countries. It said Zhang Pancheng's friends and lawyers confirmed that Zhang Pancheng had been arrested for allegedly “Picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” It quoted Zhang Pancheng's mother as saying he had been held in the Xicheng District Detention Center in Beijing for more than four months. The family member received a notice of the arrest. In the video Zhang Pancheng made, he said: “I am a simple, ordinary Chinese, but I also have my dreams, my ideals, my self-esteem, and my rights as a person. In China under today’s totalitarian rule, no one has personal safety. A private entrepreneur could die any time and anyone could disappear for no reason. He (Xi Jinping) could give away $60 billion in foreign aid but did he go through any approval process? One million innocent Muslim compatriots are being held. What crimes have they committed? Please release them and send them home immediately.”
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