Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If com­puls­ory meas­ures have been ap­plied to the ac­cused un­law­fully, the crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity shall award the ac­cused ap­pro­pri­ate dam­ages and sat­is­fac­tion.

² There is a right to dam­ages and sat­is­fac­tion in re­la­tion to re­mand and pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion if the per­mit­ted peri­od of de­ten­tion is ex­ceeded is and the ex­cess­ive depriva­tion of liberty can­not be not ac­coun­ted for in sanc­tions im­posed in re­spect of oth­er of­fences.

³ The right un­der para­graph 2 ceases to ap­ply if the ac­cused:

a.

is sen­tenced to a mon­et­ary pen­alty, com­munity ser­vice or a fine and the equi­val­ent al­tern­at­ive cus­todi­al sen­tence would not be sub­stan­tially short­er than the time spent on re­mand or in pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion;

b.

re­ceives a sus­pen­ded cus­todi­al sen­tence the length of which ex­ceeds the time spent on re­mand or in pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion.