Georgia’s interior minister stated that a 37-year-old model Kesaria Abramidze, was believed to have been stabbed to death in her apartment in suburban Tbilisi

Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday approved the third and final reading of a law on "family values and the protection of minors" that would impose sweeping curbs on LGBT rights.

The Georgian parliament has passed a sweeping bill that seeks to curtail the rights of LGBTQ people in the Eastern European country. The legislation is virtually identical to similar laws passed in neighboring Russia.

Rights groups have linked the killing to the new anti-LGBT law, arguing the government's promotion of it had fuelled transphobic hate crime. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who opposed the new law,

Kesaria Abramidze, a 37-year-old influencer, actress, and model, known for being an activist and openly discussing her transgender identity, was found murdered in her home. This occurred a day after Georgia's Parliament passed a controversial law against the promotion of homosexual relations,

Just a day after Georgia passed a controversial anti-LGBTQ law, prominent trans woman and TV personality Kesaria Abramidze was brutally murdered in her home, leaving the LGBTQ community in deep mourning.