Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The de­tain­ee's per­son­al free­dom may not be more strictly lim­ited than is re­quired for the pur­pose of de­ten­tion or for or­der and se­cur­ity in the de­ten­tion centre.

² Con­tact between the de­tain­ee and oth­er per­sons re­quires au­thor­isa­tion from the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings. Vis­its shall if ne­ces­sary be su­per­vised.

³ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall in­spect in­com­ing and out­go­ing post, with the ex­cep­tion of cor­res­pond­ence with the su­per­vis­ory and crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies. Dur­ing pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may del­eg­ate this task to the pub­lic pro­sec­utor.

⁴ The de­tain­ee may com­mu­nic­ate freely with his or her de­fence agent without the con­tent of com­mu­nic­a­tions be­ing in­spec­ted. If there is jus­ti­fied sus­pi­cion that this right is be­ing ab­used, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may with ap­prov­al of the com­puls­ory meas­ures court re­strict free com­mu­nic­a­tion for a lim­ited peri­od, provided pri­or no­tice is giv­en to the de­tain­ee and the de­fence agent of the re­stric­tions.

⁵ The can­tons shall reg­u­late the rights and ob­lig­a­tions of per­sons in cus­tody, their rights to leg­al re­dress, dis­cip­lin­ary meas­ures and the su­per­vi­sion of de­ten­tion centres.