Swiss Criminal Code

¹ Any per­son who:

a.

par­ti­cip­ates in an or­gan­isa­tion which pur­sues the ob­ject­ive of:

1.

com­mit­ting vi­ol­ent felon­ies or se­cur­ing a fin­an­cial gain by crim­in­al means, or

2.

com­mit­ting vi­ol­ent felon­ies aimed at in­tim­id­at­ing the pop­u­la­tion or co­er­cing a State or an in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tion to act or re­frain from act­ing; or who

b.

sup­ports such an or­gan­isa­tion in its activ­it­ies.

shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing ten years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

² Para­graph 1 let­ter b does not ap­ply to hu­man­it­ari­an ser­vices provided by an im­par­tial hu­man­it­ari­an or­gan­isa­tion, such as the In­ter­na­tion­al Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross, in ac­cord­ance with the com­mon Art­icle 3 of the Geneva Con­ven­tions of 12 Au­gust 1949²⁷⁹.

³ If the of­fend­er ex­er­cises a de­cis­ive in­flu­ence with­in the or­gan­isa­tion, he or she shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence of not less than three years.

⁴ The court has the dis­cre­tion to mit­ig­ate the pen­alty im­posed
(Art. 48a) if the of­fend­er makes an ef­fort to foil the activ­it­ies of the or­gan­isa­tion.

⁵ The fore­go­ing pen­al­ties also ap­ply to any per­son who com­mits the of­fence out­side Switzer­land provided the or­gan­isa­tion car­ries out or in­tends to carry out its crim­in­al activ­it­ies wholly or partly in Switzer­land. Art­icle 7 para­graphs 4 and 5 ap­plies.