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Press Complaints Commission Receives Requests Not to Change Code

The British Press Complaints Commission has reported receiving numerous requests not to change its standards, after members of a new Muslim lobbying group met to discuss changes that would increase pressure on the UK media not to republish the controversial cartoons which originally appeared in a Danish newspaper last September. At issue is clause 12. So far papers in the UK have not reprinted the cartoons themselves although they have discussed the controversy at length. Read more here.