The pretrial detention of lawyer Zabil Gakhramanov has been extended.

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A Baku court extended the pretrial detention of lawyer Zabil Gahramanov for another two months. The defense considers the decision unfounded and has filed an appeal.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on October 25, 2025, the Ganja City Court sentenced Zabil Gahramanov to three months of pretrial detention. The appellate court upheld this decision. Gahramanov's colleagues considered the case politically motivated. In November of that year, the court upheld the investigator's decision to ban Gahramanov from communicating with his family.

The investigative body has filed a motion to extend Gakhramanov's detention for another two months. He and his defense attorneys have protested, Gakhramanov's lawyer, Rasul Jafarov, told a Caucasian Knot correspondent on January 19.

According to him, during the trial in Baku's Sabail District Court, the investigative representative justified the need to extend the detention by arguing that, if free, Gakhramanov "could abscond" and "influence the participants in the trial." "However, there are no procedural or material grounds whatsoever for keeping Zabil Gakhramanov in custody. "There is no reason to believe that he could abscond," Jafarov said.

Gahramanov's other lawyer, Babek Gamidov, also stated that the charges were groundless, pointing to procedural violations in the case. Thus, according to him, much of what the victim said during the confrontation with Gahramanov was not reflected in the protocol by the investigator. Furthermore, the lawyer added, the testimony entered into the protocol of the confrontation does not match the victim's original testimony.

In particular, the incident took place not in the city of Ganja, but in the Goygol district, and the opening of a criminal case by the Ganja police was unlawful, noted another lawyer, Nazim Musayev.

According to him, the lawyers' protests against the violation of territorial jurisdiction were not satisfied.

Only recently was the case removed from the Ganja police and transferred to the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, and Gahramanov was transferred from the Ganja pretrial detention center to the Baku pretrial detention center a week ago.

However, the Sabail Court upheld the investigative body's request and extended Gahramanov's detention for another two months, until March 25, the lawyer continued.

He noted that on January 19, the defense filed an appeal against the court's decision to extend Gahramanov's arrest.

An employee of the Sabail Court in Baku confirmed the information about the extension of Gahramanov's detention. It was not possible to reach the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan for comment.