Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya called for political prisoners to be freed, violence to stop, and free elections to be held as soon as possible in her first speech from exile in Lithuania. Tikhanovskaya, a school teacher who decided to run against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko at the last moment after her husband was jailed, said Belarusians would 'never accept' him as president after an election that was widely viewed as rigged. As she spoke, protesters gathered on the streets of Minsk for a 12th straight day, calling on Lukashenko to leave office. The strongman leader, dubbed 'Europe's last dictator', has refused all calls for the vote to be re-run, telling protesters 'you will have to kill me first'.

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