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 exercise forcible violence, or through a joint action of three or more persons, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment not over five years, or a fine not over ten thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.

Whoever frees from detention by any means a person detained by virtue of the power of a court, inquiry official, or officer empowered to investigate a criminal case, shall be punished with imprisonment not over five years, or a fine not over ten thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.

If the person freed from detention has been adjudged by any particular court to a punishment of death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment of fifteen years or more, or the number [of the persons freed] is three or more, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from six months to seven years and a fine from one thousand baht to fourteen thousand baht.

If [either of] the offences as said in the two previous paragraphs is committed by exercising forcible violence or by threatening to exercise forcible violence, the offender shall be punished one-half more heavily than the punishment prescribed by the law in [either of] the two previous paragraphs.