He is known for his arrest on 1 April 2013 a few days after the protests held in Baku against the non-combat deaths in the military.
Gurbanli was accused in bogus charges such as criminal possession of a weapon and acquiring explosive substance and devices.
Meanwhile, Gurbanli was blogger and on 29 September 2012 he was detained by people in civic gears presenting themselves as officials of Department for Combating Organized Crime because of his political activity and Absheron District court made a decision to administrative arrest for 15 days according to article 310.1 of the Administrative offences Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
[5] On 1 April 2013, Gurbanli was arrested as a result of repression of the government against to N!DA Civic Movement and he was taken away to the investigatory department of Grave Crimes of Head Procurator’s office.
Then he was led to Nəsimi raion court and was accused under 228.3 article of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic (organized keeping illegal fire-arm and acquiring explosive substance and devices).