A member of parliament for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDc) was sentenced to 18 months in prison, six of them suspended on Thursday after conviction on charges that he committed violence in the post-election period of 2008.

The MP for the Chipinge South constituency of Manicaland province in the House of Assembly Meki Makuyana, is the fourt MP from the MDC to be convicted and sentenced this year.

According to VOA News;

Mutare West MP Shuah Mudiwa was recently handed a seven year sentence for kidnapping.

Chipinge East member Mathias Mlambo got 10 months for committing public violence, and lawmaker Lynette Karenyi of Chimanimani West was found guilty of electoral fraud.

Karenyi, Mudiwa and Mlambo have appealed their convictions, and lawyers for Makuyana are also filing an appeal. The MDC issued a statement calling all the charges “trumped up.”

MDC Manicaland spokesman Pishai Muchauraya told reporter Jonga Kandemiiri of VOA’s Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that such convictions reflect an attempt by the former ruling ZANU-PF party and loyalists in the judiciary to whittle down the MDC’s House majority.

Is Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party committed to this government of national unity? What is the Tsvangirai and the MDC doing about these arrests? Why is it that Zanu PF MPs are not being send to jail? Is there one law for the majority and another for Zanu PF members?

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