Music lecturer Mr Phuoc was arrested on 8 Sept 2022, charged with 'anti-state propaganda' under sec 117 of the penal code. In his last post on his Facebook Đặng Phước before his arrest, he criticised authorities' brutal treatment towards noodle soup vendor, former activist Mr Bui Tuan Lam - who was arrested on 7 Sept 2022. Mr Lam was known for imitating Salt Bae (of notorious gilded-steak chomping video clip featuring Police Minister To Lam) in sprinkling onion. Mr Phuoc also discussed issues that affected the nation such as education, human rights violations... On 18 Nov 2022, Dak Lak province police had a working session with Mr Phuoc's wife Le Thi Ha, a teacher. She told RFA Viet, in this working session, the police asked questions about three generations of her family, then showed her Facebook Hà Lê, asking her if she was the owner of this page. They then threatened her: 'The police said this Facebook page didn't say much before my husband's arrest, but since his arrest, this page started to publish and share articles that shouldn't be shared. 'They threatened to inform the Education Department, which would then inform [my] school, then the school would work with me, if I continued to share articles on Facebook.' Mrs Ha said the police gave her an indirect warning that she would be expelled from the teaching profession if she continued to provide updates on her husband's situation or sharing articles on Vietnam's social situation on her Facebook page. Cyber police was also present in the working session, to record the conversation and the images to terrorise her, to use them against her and her husband - she said. Recently, Dak Lak police also invited several local Facebookers to ask them about their connection with Mr Dang Dang Phuoc. Mr Bùi Văn Châu Tuấn - a land justice victim - was among them. In a working session with Dak Lak police on 2 Dec, about 'anti-state propaganda', the police asked him if he knew Mr Phuoc. '[The police] asked me, do I know teacher Dang Phuoc. I said yes, as our family was victims of injustice... I knew of teacher Phuoc via Facebook. I later connected with him via Messenger,..then met with him, and asked him to write an article about the injustice faced by our family.' Mrs Huynh Thi Kim Nga, wife of prisoner of conscience Ngo Van Dung, was also summoned by the police who interrogated her about Mr Phuoc's Facebook page. RFA reported that police in Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province, had threatened Le Thi Ha, wife of Vietnamese political prisoner Dang Dang Phuoc, a former music teacher, for sharing information about her husband on social media. Ha, who works in a local kindergarten, told RFA in an interview that she began to share details about her husband and other social issues in Vietnam on her personal Facebook account after Phuoc was arrested last September. Ha said that the police told her she should stop sharing information about her husband’s detention or she could be fired from her work at the kindergarten. Dang Dang Phuoc was arrested on September 8 on charges of “distributing anti-State propaganda” under Article 117 of Vietnam’s Penal Code. Phuoc is known for his posts on social media criticizing the Vietnamese government’s abysmal human rights situation and other social issues.