Saudi Arabia has freed seven Shiites arrested after protests in the oil-rich Eastern Province earlier this year. The men attended a "guidance session" by a Shiite cleric before leaving prison. They were detained during demonstrations supporting mass pro-democracy rallies led by the Shiite majority in neighbouring Bahrain, and denouncing the intervention of Saudi troops there. The demonstrations shook the kingdom's Eastern Province from March, with a total of 385 people arrested, of whom around 60 remain in custody, middle-east-online.com quotes activists as saying.