Swiss Criminal Code

¹ Any per­son who with the in­ten­tion of re­mov­ing a per­son from the pro­tec­tion of the law for a pro­longed peri­od of time:

a.

on be­half of or with the ac­qui­es­cence of a State or polit­ic­al or­gan­isa­tion, de­prives that per­son of their liberty, and there­after re­fuses to give in­form­a­tion as to their fate or where­abouts; or

b.

on be­half of or with the ac­qui­es­cence of a State or polit­ic­al or­gan­isa­tion or in vi­ol­a­tion of a leg­al duty re­fuses to give in­form­a­tion as to the fate or where­abouts of the per­son con­cerned.

shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence of not less than one year.

² Any per­son who com­mits the of­fence abroad is also li­able to the fore­go­ing pen­alty provided they are now in Switzer­land and are not ex­tra­dited. Art­icle 7 para­graphs 4 and 5 ap­ply.