These included two complaints about a report in the daily tabloid Iltalehti that characterized a protest held against the observance of the Muslim month of Ramadan as racist. The Council exonerated the paper over both complaints.Other complaints the Council dealt with related to articles published by Helsingin Sanomat on the issue of research fraud. The paper was exonerated over its treatment of the issue, and the Council found among other things that the paper’s mere handling of suspected research fraud was in the public interest. It also found that the paper was not duty bound to take a stand concerning a researcher who had been involved in research work written about by the paper but whose name was not mentioned.The Council did however uphold complains against the paper for its follow-up coverage of the story for giving a false impression of new investigations into research fraud and for failing to correct factual mistakes.Another case dealt with an article in the newspaper Aamulehti, the narrative of which concerned tracking down prostitution. Children depicted in the article and its accompanying photographs were linked by the story to prostitution. The Council upheld a complaint on the matter.The Council exonerated the commercial broadcaster MTV concerning a complaint of concealed advertising.