An Iranian Sunni Kurd, sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” and imprisoned for 14 years, was executed on Wednesday, human rights groups announced.

Ayub Karimi was sentenced to death along with six other Kurds in 2018. He was accused of being a member of outlaw organizations and linked to the murder of a priest in Mahabad (west).

He was hanged along with six other men—convicted in other cases— in a prison near Tehranaccording to the non-governmental organization IHR (Iran Human Rights), which is based in Norway.

According to local media, the Iranian authorities did not allow him to see his family for the last time.

“The execution of Ayub Karimi, based on coerced confessions, without having fair trialit’s a crime,” IHR director Mahmoud Amiri-Moghadam said.

His execution was confirmed by the Human Rights Activists News Agency, based in the US, and by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, based in France.

Amnesty International had called on Iran not to execute Ayub Karimi and had denounced the conditions in which his trial was held and that the bonds were distracted with torture.

Five of his co-accused — the sixth was executed a few weeks ago — are awaiting execution, NGOs note.

Iran ranks second in the world in the number of executions, behind only China, according to human rights NGOs, including Amnesty International.