Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)


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Art. 172 Protection of journalists' sources

1 Per­sons in­volved pro­fes­sion­ally in the pub­lic­a­tion of in­form­a­tion in the ed­it­or­i­al sec­tion of a me­di­um that ap­pears peri­od­ic­ally, to­geth­er with their aux­il­i­ary per­son­nel may re­fuse to testi­fy as to the iden­tity of the au­thor or as to the con­tent and sources of their in­form­a­tion.

2 They must testi­fy if:

a.
the testi­mony is re­quired to save a per­son from im­me­di­ate danger to life and limb;
b.
without the testi­mony one of the fol­low­ing of­fences will not be solved or a per­son sus­pec­ted of com­mit­ting such an of­fence may not be ap­pre­hen­ded:
1.
hom­icide of­fences in terms of Art­icles 111–113 SCC90,
2.
felon­ies car­ry­ing a cus­todi­al sen­tence of at least 3 years,
3.91
of­fences in terms of Art­icles 187, 189, 190, 191, 197 para­graph 4, 260ter, 260quin­quies, 260sex­ies, 305bis, 305ter and 322ter–322sep­ties SCC,
4.92
of­fences in terms of Art­icle 19 num­ber 2 of the Nar­cot­ics Act of 3 Oc­to­ber 1951 (NarcA)93.

90 SR 311.0

91 Amended by An­nex No II 3 of the FedD of 25 Sept. 2020 on the Ap­prov­al and Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Coun­cil of Europe Con­ven­tion on the Pre­ven­tion of Ter­ror­ism and its Ad­di­tion­al Pro­tocol and the Strength­en­ing of Crim­in­al Justice In­stru­ments for com­bat­ing Ter­ror­ism and Or­gan­ised Crime, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2021 (AS 2021 360; BBl 2018 6427).

92 Amended by No I of the FA of 17 June 2022, in force since 1 Jan. 2024 (AS 2023 468; BBl 2019 6697).

93 SR 812.121

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