A/HRC/45/CRP.7 victims’ refusal to recruit students or their opposition to Houthi directives inciting violence in schools.444 292. The Group verified the case of one male school principal and, in a second case, the son (aged 14) of another school principal, both of whom were first disappeared, and then detained and tortured, including being subject to interrogation about the principals’ educational activities. Prison guards also allegedly attempted to recruit the 14-year-old boy while he was in detention.445 Moreover, prior to release, some educators were forced to sign confessions stating that they would no longer object to or interfere in Houthi activities in their schools, including child recruitment. 293. Educator accounts obtained by the Group show the complex linkages between education and child recruitment in Houthi-controlled territory, in which the risks of child recruitment or violent punishment for opposition to it are omnipresent for students and teachers alike. 4. Violations Legal Findings 294. The Group of Experts found reasonable grounds to believe that the Houthis, the Government of Yemen and the coalition have continued to violate children’s right to education and to recruit and use children in hostilities in contravention of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Enlisting children under the age of 15 years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities is a war crime. The Group of Experts also concludes that the military use of schools and violations against educators limit children’s already precarious access to education during the conflict, while the indoctrination activities by the Houthis undermine the proper aims of education to develop respect for human rights, and to prepare children for responsible life in a free society. 295. It further finds that the Houthis violated educators’ rights to liberty and security of person, as well as their rights to freedom of expression. G. Treatment of specific groups Applicable law - Freedom of religion/Religious Discrimination 296. International human rights law guarantees freedom of thought, conscience and religion.446 The freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be restricted, but only as provided by law and as necessary for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others, as well as for the protection of national security, public safety, order, health or morals. Religion is a prohibited ground of discrimination under international human rights law (see nondiscrimination below), such that all persons have the right to enjoy their human rights without discrimination on the basis of their religion.447 - Rights of minorities 297. Members of minorities are entitled to enjoy the full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural human rights as other members of the community, without discrimination on prohibited grounds. This includes, for instance, not being subjected to arbitrary detention, enjoying rights to life and physical integrity, being afforded fair trial rights, and enjoying economic, social and cultural rights such as the right to work, the right to the highest attainable standard of health, and the right to an adequate standard of living. International human rights law also recognises specific rights attaching to members of ethnic, religious or 444 Confidential sources on file. Confidential sources on file. 446 ICCPR, art. 18. 447 ICCPR, arts. 2(1), 26; ICESCR, art. 2(2). Similar guarantees of non-discrimination are contained in other core international human rights instruments. 445 75