Trans woman killed in Georgia day after anti-LGBT law passed

Activists said Kesaria Abramidze had been a "trailblazing" transgender leader in the South Caucasus country.

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Local officials say Kesaria Abramidze, 37, was stabbed to death in her flat in the capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday.

The interior ministry said it was investigating a "premeditated murder committed with particular cruelty and aggravating circumstances on gender grounds".

A 26-year-old man has been arrested in the case that has shocked the small South Caucasian nation. Georgian media reported he was known to the victim.

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

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