Re: ? Innocent until proven guilty? It would be better...
Julian Assange asked permission to leave Sweden which was granted by the initial prosecutor. Assange then left the Country and a second prosecutor took the reigns and reinstated the case, issued a European arrest warrant which kind of makes it look like he fled when in fact he was already out of the country when his *new* arrest warrant was issued. Julian Assange did not flee from Sweden.
"Which might be something to do with the fact that under Swedish law you cannot charge someone until they've been formally questioned" -- I'm quite positive that this practice is not confined to Sweden.