Guilty Before Trial- A true story of injustice and corruption in Indonesia

Written from inside an Indonesian prison.

There was no publishing machine. No safe distance from the events. Only notebooks filled inside a cell by a foreigner serving a twenty-year sentence for a crime he maintains he did not commit.

Guilty Before Trial is Fernando Miguel Gama de Sousa's raw and unfiltered account of arrest, corruption, and survival. From the violence of his arrest and a trial influenced by money, to the daily struggles of confinement thousands of kilometres from home — Fernando exposes a system in which truth can become secondary to power and payment.

This is more than the story of a conviction. It is a record of endurance, faith, and the determination to remain human when freedom, family, and the ocean feel impossibly far away.