Date of Birth: 4 October 1966
Detained Since: 29 November 2025
Affiliation: Adviser to the Chair and member of the Presidium, Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (AXCP/PFPA)

Charges:

• Actions aimed at violently seizing power and forcibly changing the constitutional order (Art. 278.1)

Conviction and Sentence:
Investigation ongoing. No conviction or sentence to date. His pre-trial detention is currently authorised until 13 November 2026.

Political Prisoner Status:
His detention and imprisonment meet criteria (a) and (e) of PACE Resolution 1900 (2012):

• (a) Violation of freedom of expression and association, as well as the rights to a fair trial, liberty and security under the ECHR
• (e) Political motives were the sole and predominant reason for the unfair criminal proceedings that resulted in his pre-trial detention and imprisonment

Summary:
Mahammad Ibrahim is a long-standing Azerbaijani opposition politician and senior member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (AXCP/PFPA). Affiliated with the Popular Front since 1989, he serves as an adviser to the party’s chair and a member of its Presidium. He has previously been imprisoned in cases regarded as politically motivated.

On 29 November 2025, Ibrahim was detained by the State Security Service following a search of his home. He was charged under Article 278.1 with actions aimed at violently seizing power and forcibly changing the constitutional order. Prosecutors alleged that he received USD 46,400 and transferred it to Ali Karimli to finance mass disturbances and other violent acts. Ibrahim denied the charge, while the AXCP/PFPA described the allegations as fabricated and politically motivated.

His case forms part of a broader campaign against the AXCP/PFPA and organised opposition activity. The proceedings have raised concerns over the evidentiary basis for the allegations and justification for his continued detention. Ibrahim remains in pre-trial detention and has not been convicted of any offence.

The investigation and remand proceedings were conducted without providing the defence a genuine opportunity to test or rebut the evidentiary basis of the allegations. The court admitted SSS operational materials, search protocols and wire-transfer summaries without subjecting them to critical examination and failed to establish an evidenced, objective risk justifying Ibrahim’s continued deprivation of liberty.

International human rights organisations have denounced the charges against him as politically motivated.

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