4,5-Dibromo­phthalimide forms two centrosymmetric dimers, one linked by C—H...O hydrogen bonds and one by N—H...O hydrogen bonds

In the title compound [also called 5,6-dibromo­isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione], C₈H₃Br₂NO₂, there are two planar mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit. They both form inversion dimers, one via N—H...O links and one via short near-linear C—H...O links. The dimers are then linked into chains by further N—H...O hydrogen bonds.