AT the Semarang State University, an educational irony is in plain sight. A campus that should be providing maximum possible freedom of the expression, including the right to criticize, has muzzled it. The victim of this irony is not only Frans Josua Napitu, a 2016 student from the Law Faculty, but also the future of academic freedom.

Frans has frequently expressed criticism over issues involving students and human rights. He stridently opposed