MDC lawmakers sue over parliamentary assault

Three opposition legislators have sued the Zimbabwean Government for $27 000 after law enforcement agents assaulted them in Parliament in November. MDC lawmakers Lynette Karenyi, Thabitha Khumalo and Amos Chibaya were manhandled and assaulted by police officers who invaded Parliament to eject them following an instruction by Speaker Jacob Mudenda after they refused to rise to attention when President Emmerson Mnangagwa entered Parliament for the Budget presentation. A report on the IoL site notes that the MPs were protesting against the July election results. Tinomuda Shoko, of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, said police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs Minister Cain Mathema have been cited as respondents.