Criminal Code of the Republic of China Article 161

A person, having been legally arrested or taken into custody, who escapes shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than three years.A person who commits an offense specified in the preceding paragraph by damaging a part of the place of confinement or an instrument by which he is confined or by means of violence or threats shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one year but not more than seven years.A person who participates in an open assembly at which an offense specified in paragraph one is committed by threats or violence shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than three years but not more than ten years; a ringleader and any person who actually employs violence threats shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than five years.An attempt to commit an offense specified in one of the three preceding paragraphs is punishable.