Switzerland

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has raised concerns about the treatment of people deprived of their liberty by the police, as well as prison overcrowding in a new report. The report (French only) follows a visit by the CPT from 19-28 March 2024, which focu

Several people have been arrested in Switzerland, known for its liberal laws on assisted dying, in connection with a woman's death in a so-called "suicide pod". Prosecutors in Schaffhausen, the country's northern-most canton, were notified on Monday by a law firm that an assisted suicide with the Sa