When Kesaria Abramidze, a renowned Georgian TV personality and LGBTQ icon, shared a photo of herself with her boyfriend, she believed it signified a new chapter in her life. Tragically, she was ...

FILE - A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death, is displayed at a vigil near parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2024.

FILE – A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death, is displayed at a vigil near parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2024.

A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death, is displayed at a vigil near parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2024.

Transgender influencer Kesaria Abramidze, 37, was savagely beaten to death in her own home by ex-boyfriend Beka Jaiani, 26, the day after Georgia's government passed an anti-LGBT law ...

FILE – A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death, is displayed at a vigil near parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2024.

FILE - A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death, is displayed at a vigil near parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2024.

FILE - A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death, is displayed at a vigil near parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2024.

AP FILE - A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze. By Associated Press. ... Jaiani and Abramidze were in a relationship for about two years and fought a lot before the killing in September 2024.

FILE – A portrait of Kesaria Abramidze, a transgender actor and model who was stabbed to death, is displayed at a vigil near parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sept. 19, 2024.

A day after the killing, dozens of mourners brought flowers and candles to a makeshift memorial in central Tbilisi to Abramidze, whom members of the LGBTQ+ community praised as a symbol of ...

A man was convicted Wednesday of stabbing to death a transgender actor and model in her apartment in Georgia last year, a killing that shocked the South Caucasus nation and came a day after ...