Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹If there are grounds to as­sume that a wit­ness, a per­son provid­ing in­form­a­tion, an ac­cused per­son, an ex­pert wit­ness or a trans­lat­or or in­ter­pret­er, or a per­son re­lated to him or her in terms of Art­icle 168 para­graphs 1-3 could be ex­posed to a ser­i­ous danger to life and limb or any oth­er ser­i­ous pre­ju­dice by par­ti­cip­at­ing in the pro­ceed­ings, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall take the ap­pro­pri­ate pro­tect­ive meas­ures in re­sponse to an ap­plic­a­tion or ex of­fi­cio.

²The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may also suit­ably re­strict the pro­ced­ur­al rights of the parties, in par­tic­u­lar by:

a.

en­sur­ing an­onym­ity;

b.

con­duct­ing ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ings while ex­clud­ing parties or the pub­lic;

c.

es­tab­lish­ing per­son­al de­tails while ex­clud­ing parties or the pub­lic;

d.

modi­fy­ing the ap­pear­ance or voice of the per­son re­quir­ing pro­tec­tion or screen­ing the per­son from the court;

e.

lim­it­ing rights to in­spect case doc­u­ments.

³The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may per­mit the per­son re­quir­ing pro­tec­tion to be ac­com­pan­ied by a leg­al agent or a con­fid­ant.

⁴If a per­son un­der the age of 18 is in­ter­viewed as a wit­ness or per­son provid­ing in­form­a­tion, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may or­der fur­ther pro­tect­ive meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 154 para­graphs 2 and 4.

⁵The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall en­sure in the case of all pro­tect­ive meas­ures that the right of the parties to be heard is re­spec­ted and in par­tic­u­lar that the ac­cused's rights to a prop­er de­fence are re­spec­ted.

⁶If the per­son re­quir­ing pro­tec­tion has been as­sured that his or her an­onym­ity will be pre­served, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall take ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures to pre­vent any con­fu­sion or mis­taken iden­tity.