Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹A per­son may the re­fuse to testi­fy if he or she would in­crim­in­ate him or her­self by testi­fy­ing such that he or she:

a.

could be found guilty of an of­fence;

b.

could be held li­able un­der the civil law and the in­terest in pro­tec­tion out­weighs the in­terest in pro­sec­u­tion.

²The right to re­fuse to testi­fy also ap­plies if the per­son by testi­fy­ing would in­crim­in­ate a closely re­lated per­son as defined in Art­icle 168 para­graphs 1–3; Art­icle 168 para­graph 4 re­mains re­served.

³A per­son may re­fuse to testi­fy if by testi­fy­ing he or she or a closely re­lated per­son as defined in Art­icle 168 para­graphs 1–3 would be ex­posed to a con­sid­er­able risk to life and limb or oth­er ser­i­ous det­ri­ment that can­not be pre­ven­ted by tak­ing pro­tect­ive meas­ures.

⁴A vic­tim of a sexu­al of­fence may in every case re­fuse to an­swer ques­tions that re­late to his or her private do­main.