Front Line welcomes the release of three human rights defenders: Shaker Mohammed Abdul- Hussein Abdul-Aal, Majid Salman Ibrahim Al-Haddad, and Nader Ali Ahmad Al-Salatna. The three men are members of the Unemployment Committee. They were among eleven human rights defenders arrested between 21 and 28 December 2007 by the Special Security Forces (SFF) following demonstrations which were held on 17 December 2007, in Manama and other regions in Bahrain, in which a protester, Ali Jessam Mekki, was killed. Eight other human rights defenders remain in detention. 
