Seven Hezbollah members have been interrogated in the past few hours in connection with the attack on opposition candidate and journalist Ali Amin, who was beaten last Sunday while he was hanging posters in southern Lebanon for his electoral campaign. Al-Janoubia website, where Amin works as editor-in-chief, said that based on a complaint he submitted against those who have beaten him, seven residents of the town of Shaqra, who belong to Hezbollah, have been summoned to Tebnin police station for interrogation. According to the website, the Hezbollah members were released pending investigation, due to pressure exerted by the party leadership, specifically by the head of the central liaison and coordination committee, Wafiq Safa. In a news conference on Tuesday, Amin warned against “tyranny that silences the mouths, represses freedoms… and makes us feel that we are in the era of the law of the jungle, where is no state, no law and no deterrent force.” He stressed that the resistance was never exclusive to a certain party, but a duty for all. Amin said his candidacy for the parliamentary elections did not come within the framework of “the war on resistance, but the restoration of its noble morals,” and aims at “consolidating the values of freedom, not subordination.” Amin was beaten by more than 30 members of the party as he was hanging campaign posters in his home village of Shaqra, near the city of Bint Jbeil. He was taken to hospital, where he received treatment for a broken back and other injuries and bruises. The journalist is running against Hezbollah and Amal movement in the third electoral district in the South.