Anis Ahmed Mansour Hamida is a Yemeni journalist with the independent daily Al-Ayyam, based in Aden, who was sentenced to 14 months in prison on 15 July 2009 by a court in Karsh (southeast of Sana’a) on charges including “attacking national unity”, “separatism”, and later “criminal actions”, linked to his reporting and alleged involvement with the Southern Peaceful Movement. The sentence followed a case filed earlier that year by the government-affiliated Society to Defend the Unity of Yemen, which had accused Mansour of inciting protest and undermining state unity through his journalistic work. During the trial the public prosecutor alleged that a CD constituted material evidence of his participation in meetings organized by the Southern movement. Mansour and press freedom organisations described the trial as fundamentally political in nature, part of a broader campaign of repression of Al-Ayyam and its journalists. He has been jailed, and his newspaper harassed through interference with its distribution and attacks on its offices. Al-Ayyam itself has faced censorship, confiscation and obstruction by state authorities. Reports since then do not indicate that Mansour’s sentence has been overturned or that he has been released early, though information is sparse.