former Partizan Sports Hall, Brčko

The Partizan Sports Hall in Brčko was used during May 1992 as a detention facility for some 50 Bosniaks and Croats from the Brčko area. The prisoners were subjected to difficult and inhumane conditions and were regularly beaten, interrogated and psychologically abused, while five people were killed at the Partizan Sports Hall. In early June 1992, a group of some 30 prisoners were transferred by bus to the Batković detention camp in Bijeljina.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Momčilo Krajišnik, the wartime speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, for war crimes committed in Brčko, under the doctrine of command responsibility, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Biljana Plavšić, wartime member of the Presidency of Republika Srpska, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Radovan Karadžić, as the president of Republika Srpska and commander in chief of its armed forces, was sentenced to life imprisonment. On 5 July 2001, Goran Jelisić was convicted by the ICTY for crimes committed in the territory of Brčko and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Pero Rikanović was convicted before the Appellate Court of the Brčko District of BiH for war crimes against prisoners of war and against the civilian population and sentenced to five and a half years in prison.