Irene Lilienheim Angelico and Abbey Jack Neidik’s First to Stand centres on Cotler’s groundbreaking activism
begins ominously. “We are witnessing a resurgent global authoritarianism, a massive assault on human rights, the retreat of democracies and the pain and plight of political prisoners as a looking glass into this historical inflection moment,” says Irwin Cotler, an international human rights lawyer and former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada.
The case of the activist, whose wife and children took refuge in Quebec, attracted international attention in 2015 when he was whipped 50 times in public. While he was released from prison a year ago, he is unable to join his family in Canada because of travel ban imposed upon him., a camera follows Cotler into the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the Badawi file.
Her mother once took off her yellow star, left the Warsaw Ghetto and risked her life to find a doctor to set her father’s leg, which had been crushed by a truck driven by a Nazi. On another occasion, Angelico’s father erously searched for antibiotics for a sick friend, almost dying in the process himself.
celebrates human rights advocates including the Russian ‘refusenik” Sharansky, international barrister Amal Clooney, Canadian peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire, Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad and financier-activist Bill Browder, who had the borscht to take on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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