oaqe 56 97. As regards the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination on the grounds of reliqion or belief (Declaration, arts. 2-4), the allegations received durinq the present reporting period make particular mention of the denial of leqal guarantees such as the right of legal recourse, the right to be tried within a reasonable period, and the right to compensation in the event of a miscarriage of justice. Such allegations also refer to cases of discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief as reqards access to education, employment, health services, and food rations. Examples of permanent exclusion from public service, refusal to give injured parties their legal compensation and denial of the right to obtain a passport on the grounds of religion or belief may also be noted. 98. Where the education of children in accordance with the reliqion or belief of the parents is concerned (Declaration, art. 5), the allegations received by the Special Rapporteur indicate the continued existence of restrictions on enjoyment of this freedom. Examples which may be mentioned are discrimination aqainst children of certain denominations as reqards access to education and the fact that it is impossible for some children to receive religious education outside the family circle, or impossible in practice for the children of unbelievers to benefit from public education not involvinq compulsory reliqious education. 99. Lastly, the Special Rapporteur has already had occasion in his previous two reports to refer to the adverse consequences of intolerance and discrimination in the matter of reliqion or belief for the enjoyment of human riqhts in qeneral. It must be noted, in the context of the present report and with reference to the recent period, that these infrinqements of fundamental riqhts and freedoms have persisted. Accordinq to the alleqations transmitted to the Special Rapporteur, the enjoyment of fundamental rights such as the riqhts to life, physical inteqrity, freedom and security of the person, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the riqht to education, the riqht to take part in public life, the right to freedom of movement or the riqht for members of minorities to profess and practise their own religion, are jeopardized for reasons of reliqion or belief. Many persons are still detained, in prisons, in labour camps or in psychiatric hospitals, for reasons of reliqion or belief, whether or not the ostensible qrounds are reliqious. Believers and members of the clerqy of many denominations or persons holdinq certain beliefs continue, in a number of reqions of the world, to be subjected to death threats, intimidation, physical assault, enforced re-education or enforced indoctrination. Persons held for reliqious reasons may in some cases be subjected to ill-treatment and to corporal punishment. The disappearance of members of the clerqy has also been reported, as have the compulsory enlistment for military service of believers who are conscientious objectors and the expulsion of members of the clerqy.

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