Of course then they never tell the rest of the story.
A. How he was initially questioned in Sweden when the accusations first broke. How the original prosecutor declined to prosecute him.
B. How he was there a whole month before he left, and how he was given permission to leave.
C. How he has repeatedly offered to be questioned :

1. On foreign soil
   
2. Or in a web appearance
   

Of course the charges themselves are fishy because of the tweets (available on the net) sent right "after the fact" by the two women (whose names are also available in many places)about their time with him and how much fun they were having.

Assange should, IMO, be sent back to Sweden to deal with the questions concerning these alleged sexual assaults. He should not then be extradited to the U.S. It infuriates me that the U.S. government, the British government and, to some extent, the Swedish government are using allegations of sexual assault to mount a political persecution.

I do not for one minute believe that the U.S. government gives a damn about the possible sexual assaults. I am disgusted by the feds manipulating of the situation, which effectively minimizes the sexual assault claims, to their own very dubious ends.

A prosecutor dismissed the idea of rape, but Assange was still under investigation for molestation. The women's attorney, Claes Borgstrom, appealed to a higher-ranking prosecutor, Marianne Ny, who put rape back into the mix.

Assange has insisted that this was improper. But both Swedish and British law lets higher-ranking prosecutors overrule subordinates, said Senior District Judge Howard Riddle in his rejection of Assange's appeal in February 2011. (Cryptome has a transcript.)

Assange's lawyer in Sweden said that, after Ny took the case Sept. 1, she made no attempt to interview Assange before he left for London at the end of September. Actually, Ny had contacted Hurtig, who later said he couldn't find Assange. Riddle said Hurtig corrected his evidence at the last minute, but in such a low-key way as to be misleading:

I do not accept that this was a genuine mistake. It cannot have slipped his mind. For over a week he was attempting (he says without success) to contact a very important client about a very important matter. The statement was a deliberate attempt to mislead the court.

Assange and his supporters have argued that, even if what the women say is true, the actions would not be illegal in Britain. Riddle disagreed.

At first, Assange suggested the accusations might be a Pentagon plot, and one of his lawyers was quoted as calling it a honeytrap. The lawyer later said he was misquoted, and WikiLeaks said the women didn't conspire. The meme changed to the idea that the women were being used by others. As Riddle noted, Assange has not argued in court that this is a political conspiracy, nor has he presented any evidence.  

To rebut more of what Slayer wrote: Although Assange was interviewed in Sweden, prosecutors still want the opportunity to question him further. It's not unusual for a suspect to be interviewed more than once.

The first woman did tweet about being in the company of such esteemed men, and the second woman was impressed, too. One of the websites that has published the women's names, addresses, photos, etc., also inexplicably published statements given by the women and others.

In these statements, the first woman describes sex with Assange as the worse ever. The second woman talks about how they spent hours in foreplay but Assange couldn't sustain an erection while wearing a condom.

Before Judge Riddle, one of Assange's defense witnesses -- a former Chief District Prosecutor in Stockholm -- said Sweden would not and could not extradite Assange to the U.S. to be executed. In his ruling, Riddle noted that it's easier to extradite someone from the U.K. to the U.S., and that, if Assange is extradited to Sweden, and the U.S. then wants him, Sweden would not only have to approve the extradition, but it also would need the approval of the British Secretary of State.

Amnesty International has criticized Sweden (and other Scandinavian countries) for its low rate of prosecution and conviction in rape cases.

It's possible that the Village Voice might be biased on "human sexual trafficking" since it has been accused of doing that through its back pages. Do you have a link to that Snopes page? I tried searching for "human trafficking," "sex trafficking" and "sexual trafficking" and found nothing debunking figures.