Zhang Pancheng, a former security guard at Peking University who was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison by a Chinese Communist Party court for recording an Anti-Communist video, has been reported missing again. Huayong, a mainland painter living in exile in Thailand, tweeted that he received some videos and notes from Zhang Pancheng on the 10th of this month, but had not heard from him since the following day. Mainland lawyer Liang Xiaojun said on the 14th, Zhang Pancheng’s grandfather said that Zhang Pancheng was taken away by the public security, probably related to the online video.
Liang Xiaojun, a mainland lawyer who has defended Zhang Pancheng’s friends, tweeted on Feb. 14 that Zhang Pancheng’s grandfather called at 5:30 p.m. that day, saying that Zhang Pancheng had just been taken away by local public security because of the online video.
Hua Chong, a Thai dissident in exile, retweeted the above tweet and posted several videos and chat logs of Zhang Pancheng. Hua Chung said that Zhang expected to send a lot of videos and notes on Telegram on October 10, saying he was going to leave Home by bicycle, and then forwarded them to a group the next day. The video sent by Huayong shows Zhang High expectation walking in the snow with a backpack, saying he is in Gansu province; Zhang High expectation also posted a video asking the authorities to release Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist who was sentenced to four years in prison for allegedly “provoking and provoking trouble.
In the uploaded video, Zhang Pancheng is seen walking in the snow while saying, “The tyrant is judging us with swords and sticks because he is afraid of freedom as much as he is afraid of fire. Hold up your heads, brethren, and do not be chagrined; these chains are our proud breastplate.”
Huayong called for outside attention to Zhang Pancheng’s situation.
Zhang Pancheng, who is from Heshui County, Gansu Province, worked as a security guard at Peking University. in November 2018, he recorded a film at the shore of Beida’s Wei Ming Lake. Zhang Pancheng said in the video, this is his last day as a security guard at Peking University, he came from the rural northwest grew up left behind, and now to express his will as a citizen: disagree with the $60 billion sent to (foreign) people without legal procedures, demand freedom of expression, solidarity with the disappeared Dong Yaoqiong, Huayong, the rights workers of Shenzhen Jias and the former Peking University students Yue Xin and other people, as well as into the study class of millions of Xinjiang Muslim compatriots in Xinjiang.
He said that while Cai Yuanpei had made Peking University prosperous during his presidency, it is now “dead and dreary” and has become “a sad place for mainlanders.
Zhang Pancheng called on everyone to stand up for democracy and freedom, for fairness and justice, for the country promised in Mao Zedong’s 1945 article “On United Government”.
In the video, the 90-year-old netizen quoted the famous Song dynasty general Wen Tianxiang and other ancient poets who expressed putting Life and death on the line, and said he loved the land so much that after his death he would like to scatter his ashes to the place where the ancient poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river.
Zhang Pancheng was subsequently arrested and sentenced to one year and six months by a Beijing Xicheng court in April last year for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. On May 20 of the same year, Zhang Pancheng was released from prison.
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