Swiss Criminal Code

State:Switzerland
Date: Dec. 21, 1937
Language:English
Status:Enacted
Version:PDF

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Abetting
Aiding
Amnesty content
Any other form of sexual violence - IAC
Any other form of sexual violence - NIAC
Any other form of sexual violence - crimes against humanity
Apartheid - crimes against humanity
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Attempt
Biological experiments - IAC
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Command responsibility - national proceedings
Commission through another person
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Complementarity
Conscripting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Conscripting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence
Crimes against humanity
Criminal responsibility of legal persons
Cruel treatment - NIAC
Customary international law
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Denial of quarter - IAC
Denial of quarter - NIAC
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - IAC
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - NIAC
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Early release - national proceedings
Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC
Employing bullets which flatten or expand - IAC
Employing poison or poisoned weapons - IAC
Enforced disappearance - crimes against humanity
Enforced prostitution - IAC
Enforced prostitution - NIAC
Enforced prostitution - crimes against humanity
Enforced sterilisation - IAC
Enforced sterilisation - NIAC
Enforced sterilisation - crimes against humanity
Enforcement of fines
Enforcement of forfeiture orders
Enforcement of national penalties - conditions of imprisonment
Enforcement of national penalties - fines
Enforcement of national penalties - forfeiture orders
Enforcement of national penalties - imprisonment
Enforcement of sentence of imprisonment
Enforcement of sentences imposed
Enlisting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Enlisting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Escape - national proceedings
Extensive appropriation of property - IAC
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Forced pregnancy - IAC
Forced pregnancy - NIAC
Forced pregnancy - crimes against humanity
Forcible transfer of population - crimes against humanity
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Gender
Genocide
Giving false testimony
Grave breaches - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - NIAC
Immunity - national proceedings
Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Improper use of a flag of truce - IAC
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy - IAC
Incapacity - national proceedings
Individual criminal responsibility
Inducing
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Insanity - national proceedings
Intent - national proceedings
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, other groups
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, medical units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - NIAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause environmental damage - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental damage to civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians - IAC
Intentionally starving as method of warfare - IAC
Joint commission
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction of custodial State or State where present
Killing members of the group
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who no longer has means of defence and has surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary - NIAC
Knowledge - national proceedings
Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Mental disease or defect - national proceedings
Mental element
Mistake of fact - national proceedings
Mistake of law - national proceedings
Mitigating factors - national proceedings
Murder - NIAC
Murder - crimes against humanity
Mutilation - other serious violations of laws and customs of war - NIAC
National penalties - crimes against humanity
National penalties - genocide
National penalties - life imprisonment
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - national proceedings
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
National penalties - war crimes
Ne bis in idem
Necessity - national proceedings
Negligence
Non-retroactivity
Nulla poena sine lege
Offences against administration of justice
Omission
Ordering
Ordering displacement of the civilian population - NIAC
Other inhumane acts - crimes against humanity
Other prohibited weapons - IAC
Other serious violations of the laws and customs - NIAC
Pardon
Persecution - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Pillaging - IAC
Pillaging - NIAC
Prohibited weapons
Prohibited weapons - NIAC
Protective jurisdiction
Rape - IAC
Rape - NIAC
Rape - crimes against humanity
Repatriation - IAC
Self-defence - national proceedings
Sentencing - national procedures for national proceedings
Sentencing - national proceedings
Serious violations of Common Article 3 - NIAC
Severe deprivation of physical liberty - crimes against humanity
Sexual slavery - IAC
Sexual slavery - NIAC
Sexual slavery - crimes against humanity
Soliciting
Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court
State privileges and immunities
Statute of limitations - national proceedings
Superior / subordinate relationship (civilian) - national proceedings
Superior / subordinate relationship (military) - national proceedings
Superior orders - national proceedings
Superior responsibility - national proceedings
Taking of hostages - IAC
Taking of hostages - NIAC
Territorial jurisdiction - national proceedings
Torture - IAC
Torture - NIAC
Torture - crimes against humanity
Transferring own civilians into occupied territory - IAC
Transferring population of an occupied territory - IAC
Unique provision - war crimes
Universal jurisdiction
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - NIAC
Utilising the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations - IAC
Violations of laws and customs - IAC
Voluntary withdrawal
War crimes
Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC