That issue of the newspaper was confiscated, and later the entire publication was shut down. Three young journalists were exposed and criticized. Zhang Weiguo served a twenty-month imprisonment. "The mainland government felt I had made trouble for them, and I hadn't obeyed their instructions," he said.
那一期報紙就被查封，爾後該報也遭停刊，有三位年輕記者事後被清算，張偉國坐了二十個月的牢，「中共覺得我給他們惹麻煩，不服從管教」，他說。