Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation

¹No per­son may be de­prived of their liberty oth­er than in the cir­cum­stances and in the man­ner provided for by the law.

²Any per­son de­prived of their liberty has the right to be no­ti­fied without delay and in a lan­guage they can un­der­stand of the reas­ons for their de­ten­tion and of their rights. They must be giv­en the op­por­tun­ity to ex­er­cise their rights, in par­tic­u­lar, the right to have their next-of-kin in­formed.

³Any per­son in pre-tri­al de­ten­tion has the right to be brought be­fore a court without delay. The court de­cides wheth­er the per­son must re­main in de­ten­tion or be re­leased. Any per­son in pre-tri­al de­ten­tion has the right to have their case de­cided with­in a reas­on­able time.

⁴Any per­son who has been de­prived of their liberty by a body oth­er than a court has the right to have re­course to a court at any time. The court shall de­cide as quickly as pos­sible on the leg­al­ity of their de­ten­tion.