Civil rights activists, free speech advocates, lawyers and politicians have criticised during the last few days India's controversial Internet laws, after two women were arrested in Mumbai for publishing comments on Facebook related with the general strike after the Hindu leader Bal K. Thackeray’s death on 17 November.

Those Indian citizens are against, in particular, of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which was added in 2008 and makes it a crime to digitally sen...