Not an expert on the story, or Julian Assange, but if he's innocent - why did he leave the country? He says that the allegations are false, so why did he feel the need to leave? If he was innocent (I don't really have a leaning either way), then it seems like it would have been a better idea to face the music, go through some discomfort, have the charges dropped, then get on with life. If someone gets accused of a crime, and they flee the country, that doesn't make them look exactly innocent. Did he flee so he could continue WikiLeaks? Even then, there's likely other people that could have picked up the slack if he had to go away for a while. Was it going to be an unfair trial? At that point, if there was no way of challenging that in court, leaving the country would be understandable.