(CNN) Belarus' political opposition has said three of its leading members have been abducted, and called for their immediate release. The Belarusian Coordination Council said in a statement Monday that "unknown people in the center of ​Minsk" had abducted Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the council's executive committee, as well as press secretary Anton Rodnenkov and executive secretary Ivan Kravtsov. In an interview with Christiane Amanpour on Monday, Tikhanovskaya said she was "sure" that Kolesnikova was kidnapped. Speaking from Vilnius, Lithuania, she said members of the Coordination Council have been "chased, kidnapped and harassed." "We are sure that (Kolesnikova) was kidnapped in the morning, but what was going on after this, we are not sure, because we still don't have answers," Tikhanovskaya said.

Source: CNN September 07, 2020 17:55 UTC