New Delhi, July 10 -- GENEVA - In the days before England played Belgium at the World Cup, a phone call changed things. Folarin Balogun had been suspended, his two-match red card ban pulling him out of the group stage after a foul in the opener. Then Donald Trump made contact with FIFA, and Balogun played.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino later said no direct communication had occurred between the two. Now a human rights organization wants the International Olympic Committee to judge whether he was telling the truth, and whether his broader relationship with Trump violates the neutrality rules that govern international sports governance.

FairSquare, a UK-based rights organization that focuses on labor abuses in global sport, filed a form...