Swiss Criminal Code

¹ Vic­tims and re­l­at­ives of vic­tims as defined in Art­icle 1 para­graphs 1 and 2 of the Vic­tim Sup­port Act of 23 March 2007¹³⁵ (VSA) and third parties who have a le­git­im­ate in­terest may make a writ­ten re­quest to the ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity for the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the time of ex­e­cu­tion of the sen­tence or meas­ure im­posed on the of­fend­er, in­sti­tu­tion re­spons­ible for ex­e­cu­tion, the form of ex­e­cu­tion if it dif­fers from nor­mal, in­ter­rup­tions and re­lax­a­tions in the sen­tence or meas­ure, (Art. 75a para. 2), pa­role and fi­nal re­lease, and the re­act­iv­a­tion of the ex­e­cu­tion of a sen­tence or meas­ure;

b.

im­me­di­ate no­ti­fic­a­tion of the es­cape of an of­fend­er and of his or her re­cap­ture.

² The ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity de­cides on the re­quest after con­sult­ing the of­fend­er.

³ It may re­fuse to provide the in­form­a­tion or re­voke a pre­vi­ous de­cision to provide in­form­a­tion only if the of­fend­er’s le­git­im­ate in­terests jus­ti­fy this.

⁴ If the ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity ap­proves a re­quest, it shall ad­vise the per­son en­titled to in­form­a­tion of the con­fid­en­ti­al­ity of the in­form­a­tion dis­closed. Per­sons en­titled to vic­tim sup­port un­der the VSA are not re­quired to main­tain con­fid­en­ti­al­ity in their deal­ings with a coun­sel­lor at a coun­selling ser­vice un­der Art­icle 9 VSA.