As it appeared in today's New York Times:
Olympic Committee Urged to Expel Iraq
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA, Dec. 5 (AP) - A human rights group has formally demanded that the International Olympic Committee expel Iraq's national Olympic committee because its chief, Saddam Hussein's oldest son, Uday, tortured and jailed athletes who failed to please him.
The group, Indict, which is based in London and focuses on Iraqi rights abuses, said today that it had lodged a complaint against the Iraqi body with the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee. Indict said it included United Nations reports and witness statements from exiled former Iraqi athletes to build its case.
"Iraq has violated every single provision of the I.O.C. Code of Ethics," said Charles Forrest, chief executive of Indict. "The I.O.C. should have investigated this on its own. Now I hope it will be forced to."
Olympic committee officials said they were aware of the complaint but that they were unable to comment because they had yet to receive Indict's documentation.
Indict said that the Iraqi leader's son once made several track athletes crawl on newly poured asphalt while they were beaten, and that he ordered that some be thrown off a bridge. The group also accused him of running a special prison for athletes who offended him.
"The Iraqi committee is the only Olympic committee in the world with its own prison and torture chamber," said Ann Clwyd, a British lawmaker who is also chairwoman of Indict. To allow it to take part in the Olympic movement, she said, "is to mock all of the Olympics' high principles."