 Individuals involved in the Weiquan movement have met with occasionally harsh reprisals from Chinese officials , including disbarment , detention , harassment , and , in extreme instances , torture . Authorities have also responded to the movement with the launch of an education campaign on the " socialist concept of rule of law , " which reasserts the role of the Communist Party and the primacy of political considerations in the legal profession , and with the Three Supremes , which entrenches the supremacy of the Communist Party in the judicial process . 
