Kesaria Abramidze

Abramidze was found murdered on 18 September 2024 at her home on the outskirts of Tbilisi, just one day after the Parliament of Georgia passed the Georgian LGBT propaganda bill. She was 37.^[8][9] Michael Roth, the chairman of Bundestag's Committee on International Relations, directly connected Abramidze's murder to the new anti-LGBTQ+ law and Social Justice Center stated that "political homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia have become central to the government's official discourse and ideology".^[7][10] The murder caused shock in the country and was condemned by the Georgian ombudsman, Levan Ioseliani; the country's president, Salome Zourabichvili, who proposed that it should be a wake-up call for society as a whole and murder should not go unpunished; and by the spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office.^[7][10][11]

The next day, a 26-year-old person was arrested at Kutaisi International Airport, who was allegedly in a relationship with the model and had previously threatened her.^[9] In a post in April of that same year, Abramidze had already reported both physical and psychological abuse by her partner.^[12] Her civil funeral took place on 22 September 2024 and was attended by President Zourabichvili.^[13] On 16 April 2025, the suspect, identified as Beka Jaiani, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.^[14]

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