Swiss Criminal Code

¹ If per­sons who are pro­fes­sion­ally in­volved in the pub­lic­a­tion of in­form­a­tion in the ed­it­or­i­al sec­tion of a peri­od­ic­al me­di­um or their aux­il­i­ary per­son­nel re­fuse to give evid­ence as to the iden­tity of the au­thor or as to the con­tent and sources of their in­form­a­tion, they are not li­able to any pen­alty nor to any pro­ced­ur­al law en­force­ment meas­ures.

² Para­graph 1 does not ap­ply if the court¹⁶ holds that:

a.

the evid­ence is re­quired in or­der to save a per­son from im­me­di­ate danger to life or limb; or

b.¹⁷

without the evid­ence, a case of hom­icide un­der Art­icles 111–113 or a dif­fer­ent felony that car­ries a min­im­um cus­todi­al sen­tence of three years, or an of­fence un­der Art­icles 187, 189–191, 197 para­graph 4, 260^ter,260^quin­quies, 260^sex­ies,305^bis, 305^ter or 322^ter–322^sep­tiesof this Code or un­der Art­icle 19 para­graph 2 of the Nar­cot­ics Act of 3 Oc­to­ber 1951¹⁸ will not be solved or the per­sons sus­pec­ted of com­mit­ting the said of­fence may not be ap­pre­hen­ded.