Born on May 5, 1978.<\/p>\n
Writes poems for children in Belarusian and Russian and is the author of the poetry book \u0416\u0433\u0438!<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n D\u017amitryj was arrested in Minsk on September 21, 2022.<\/p>\n He was forced to read his poems on a video shot by police officers. Also in the video, he says that he participated in the peaceful protests of 2020 because “his heart ached for the country.”<\/p>\n The consideration of the administrative case of D\u017amitryj Jurtaje\u016d took place on September 23, 2022, in the Pier\u0161amajski District Court in Minsk. He was accused of “petty hooliganism” (Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Violations) and sentenced to 15 days of arrest. Later, D\u017amitryj Jurtaje\u016d was sentenced twice to 15 days of administrative arrest.<\/p>\n In November 2022, a criminal case was opened against D\u017amitryj Jurtaje\u016d for insulting the President on the basis of part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.<\/p>\n On April 14, 2023, the criminal case against D\u017amitryj Jurtaje\u016d began in the Minsk City Court, he was accused of insulting Alexander Lukashenko (part 1, Article 368 of the Criminal Code) and “inciting social enmity” (part 1, Article 130 of the Criminal Code).<\/p>\n On April 29, 2023, the sentence was delivered: 2 years of imprisonment in a low-security penal colony.<\/p>\n On July 11, 2023, the Supreme Court considered D\u017amitryj Jurtaje\u016d\u2019s appeal and rejected it.<\/p>\n On July 28, 2023, D\u017amitryj Jurtaje\u016d has been added to the “List of Persons involved in extremist activities.”<\/p>\n D\u017amitryj Jurtaje\u016d\u00a0was released on June 15, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Children’s poet (pen name Zmitrok Bura\u010dok), showman, former teacher at Smart School, private school in Minsk.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4310],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bylyya_lyudzi_slova_u_nyavoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16129,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions\/16129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}