Hall 37 and the adjoining auditorium are packed.
Like two other halls broadcasting the trial.
For four days, the man will be heard and on Tuesday the 60-year-old spoke freely and gave his view on the matter.
Rejects the entire indictment
The man speaks poetically and melodically.
Almost like he's telling a story.
He denies the entire indictment and says time and time again that everything is fabricated.
- Everything that has been said during these four months is repetition.
Alltihop.
And if you go into the details, you see that it is also contradictory.
I will put an end to 33 years of lies and slander, he says initially.
This case is about several things.
To begin with, about who the man is and what he did in the summer of 1988 in Iran.
Thousands of political prisoners were then executed by a so-called death commission, information that the accused believes is not true at all.
But the case is also about the aftermath of the Iranian revolution and the war between Iran and Iraq that ended that summer.
Focus on opposition group
Outside the district court, the voices of the opposition group Folkets mujahedin echo.
Since the trial began in August, they have been chanting slogans against the accused and the Iranian regime.
The indictment is based, among other things, on the fact that most of those executed in the summer of 1988 belonged to the mujahedin.
The 60-year-old man calls the organization Iran's internal enemy and says they were the other front the country had to fight during the Iran-Iraq war that lasted for eight years in the 1980s.
At first he does not take the group's name in his mouth.
Instead, he calls them "monafeqin", which means traitors or hypocrites.
Detained for two years
The man was arrested at Arlanda in Stockholm in November 2019 and has been in custody ever since.
So far, about thirty witnesses and relatives have been heard in court and even more are expected.
It will not be until this spring that the verdict will be upheld.