Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The pen­alty is a cus­todi­al sen­tence of life or a cus­todi­al sen­tence of not less than ten years for any per­son who with the in­tent to des­troy, in whole or in part, a group of per­sons char­ac­ter­ised by their na­tion­al­ity, race, re­li­gion or eth­nic, so­cial or polit­ic­al af­fil­i­ation:

a.

kills mem­bers of such a group, or ser­i­ously harms them phys­ic­ally or men­tally;

b.

in­flicts liv­ing con­di­tions on mem­bers of such a group that are cal­cu­lated to bring about its total or par­tial de­struc­tion;

c.

or­ders or takes meas­ures that are dir­ec­ted to­wards pre­vent­ing births with­in such a group; or

d.

for­cibly trans­fers chil­dren in such a group to an­oth­er group or ar­ranges for such chil­dren to be for­cibly trans­ferred to an­oth­er group