FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks claims he was hounded out of the Northern Territory the week before US President Barack Obama came to Darwin.

Hicks, who admitted training with the Taliban in Afghanistan, said he didn't know the US president was coming to town when he came to the Territory capital on a fishing trip in November last year.

He claimed police watched him, told him his name had been "red-flagged", tracked him back to Adelaide, and that his car had possibly been fitted with a surveillance device.



"I was harassed by the police from the time I was 30km out of Darwin (stopping) for fuel," he told a Human Rights Day event at Charles Darwin University. "They told me that I had no choice, that I had to leave."

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