The transgender model most famous in Georgia, Kesaria Abramidzewas murdered on Wednesday, just one day after the country’s Parliament approved a controversial law against LGBT propaganda despite the rejection of WestA suspect has been arrested for this murder.
The 37-year-old victim was a blogger and model with half a million followers on social media, as well as being Georgia’s most famous transgender woman.
Kesaria Abramidze was stabbed to death on Wednesday night in her apartment in the suburbs of Tbilisithe Georgian Interior Ministry reported.
The police arrested the Alleged murderer, a 26-year-old man identified as Beka Dzhaiani, at the airport in Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city, as he was preparing to leave the country. The man was said to be in a relationship with the model.
Abramidze was one of the country’s first transgender public figures. In 2014, she announced her sex change and four years later she participated in the Miss Trans Star International beauty pageant in Spain.
His murder occurred just 24 hours after the Georgian Parliament approved in its third and final reading the controversial ‘Family Values and the Protection of Minors’ law, which prohibits the propaganda of non-traditional relationships.
84 deputies of the ruling party voted in favor Georgian Dreamin a vote boycotted by the opposition.
The norm In particular, it prohibits same-sex marriages. and the adoption of children by homosexual couples.
It also establishes a prison sentence of between one and four years for sex change surgeries.
For the propaganda homosexual relations in educational institutions is subject to a fine of up to 4,000 lari (about 1,500 dollars). Meanwhile, the distribution of materials on sex change or homosexual relationships will carry fines of up to 3,000 lari (about 1,100 dollars).
It is also prohibit public gatherings or demonstrations in favor of the LGBT community.
As an argument to defend this anti-LGTBI rule, the leader of the parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdinaradze, argued, without any proof, that “in those countries where the Pseudo-liberal ideology is especially strongaccording to international surveys, until 20 percent of people between 18 and 25 years old They have a “non-traditional sexual orientation”.
Brussels has previously deplored the authorities’ plans to pass the controversial law in a “hasty” manner and without consulting society.
This is the second law condemned by the West and approved in Georgia in the last four months after the Foreign Influence Transparency Actwhich its detractors compare with a similar Russian policy to silence dissent.
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