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One of Georgia's astir well-known transgender women has been killed successful her home, a time aft the country's parliament passed a large anti-LGBT bill.
Local officials accidental Kesaria Abramidze, 37, was stabbed to decease successful her level successful the capital, Tbilisi, connected Wednesday.
The interior ministry said it was investigating a "premeditated execution committed with peculiar cruelty and aggravating circumstances connected sex grounds".
A 26-year-old antheral has been arrested successful the lawsuit that has shocked the tiny South Caucasian nation. Georgian media reported helium was known to the victim.
Rights groups person linked the sidesplitting to the caller anti-LGBT law, arguing the government's promotion of it had fuelled transphobic hatred crime.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who opposed the caller law, said the "horrendous murder" raised urgent questions astir hatred crimes and discrimination.
The authorities from Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's authorities severely restricts rights for LGBT people.
It introduces a prohibition connected same-sex marriage, gender-affirming surgeries, kid adoption by non-heterosexuals and the promotion of same-sex relationships successful schools.
The measure sailed done parliament connected Tuesday successful an 84-0 vote, contempt disapproval from rights groups.
The ruling enactment said the "Protection of Family Values and Minors" measure was designed to support a bulk of Georgians seeking extortion from "LGBT propaganda".
But section LGBT rights campaigners said the authorities had utilized homophobic and transphobic connection and ideas successful promoting the bill.
Several activists straight linked what they said was the government's harmful rhetoric to the sidesplitting of Ms Abramidze.
One of the archetypal openly trans nationalist figures successful the country, she had represented Georgia successful planetary trans pageants and had much than 500,000 followers connected societal media.
"Political homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia person go cardinal to the government’s authoritative sermon and ideology," said section quality rights radical the Social Justice Center.
"Kesaria Abramidze's sidesplitting cannot beryllium viewed separately from this wide sedate context," it added.
Progressive politicians extracurricular the state person besides linked the sidesplitting to the government's legislative agenda.
"Those who sow hatred volition reap violence. Kesaria Abramidze was killed conscionable 1 time aft the Georgian parliament passed the anti-LGBTI law,” wrote German lawmaker Michael Roth, the societal antiauthoritarian seat of the country's overseas affairs committee.
European Union figures had already condemned the authorities erstwhile it passed earlier this week, saying it further jeopardised the country's stated purpose of joining the EU.
Josep Borrell, the EU's overseas argumentation chief, said the instrumentality was "further derailing the state from its EU path". He called connected the Georgian authorities to retreat the law.
The authorities undermines the "fundamental rights of the people" and increases favoritism and stigmatisation, helium added.
The British embassy has besides expressed "serious concerns".
Rights groups person characterised the Georgian authorities arsenic being akin to Russian laws which severely restrict LGBT rights.
The Washington-based deliberation vessel Freedom House said the measure was "pulled straight from the Kremlin's authoritarian playbook".
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