'We will not relent' - Belarus opposition leader

The two are leaders of the opposition Coordination Council, which Tsikhanouskaya, 37, said in a video link with the European Parliament she set up in order to 'facilitate the transitional period.'

Tsikhanouskaya, who fled to Lithuania after a presidential election her supporters say she won, called for 'political prisoners (to be) freed' and for and end to 'violence and intimidation by the authorities.'

A political novice, Tsikhanouskaya emerged as the consensus opposition candidate after better-known figures were barred from standing, including her jailed activist husband.