Taiwan's former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je is back in court for the appeal of his 17-year corruption sentence, and he says prosecutors are still out to get him.

• The High Court opened the appeal hearing in the Core Pacific City land deal and political donations cases.
• Ko was sentenced to 17 years in March; a Taipei city councillor and a business group chairman also got long sentences, and both sides appealed.
• Ko says prosecutors decided he was guilty first and went looking for evidence afterwards, calling it "shoot the arrow, then draw the target."
• He says he was held not to get a confession but to keep him quiet, and that his complaint about improper questioning has gone nowhere.
• He wants the trial broadcast live so the public can judge Taiwan's courts for themselves.

Outlook: The appeal will run for months, keeping Taiwan's opposition politics and questions about political prosecution in the headlines.