FILE - In this Thursday, May 26, 2011 file photo, former opposition presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich waves as he sits in a cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus. The authoritarian president of Belarus on Saturday pardoned all six political prisoners in the former Soviet republic, including Statkevich, a former opposition presidential candidate. President Alexander Lukashenko's office said the president, "proceeding from the principle of humanism," decided Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015 to pardon and release Statkevich and five others who are considered to be political prisoners. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, file)