Swiss Criminal Code

Sol­it­ary con­fine­ment in the form of un­in­ter­rup­ted sep­ar­a­tion from oth­er pris­on in­mates may only be ordered:

a.

for a max­im­um of one week at the start of the sen­tence in or­der to ini­ti­ate the ex­e­cu­tion of the sen­tence;

b.

for the pro­tec­tion of the pris­on in­mate or of third parties;

c.

as a dis­cip­lin­ary sanc­tion;

d.¹²²

to pre­vent oth­er pris­on in­mates from be­ing in­flu­enced by ideas that may en­cour­age them to carry out ter­ror­ist activ­it­ies, provided there is spe­cif­ic evid­ence of such an in­flu­ence.