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An Australian woman wearing a burkini was forced off a French beach by enraged locals after travelling to the country to show solidarity with local Muslims.

Zeynab Alshelh, a 23-year-old medical student from Sydney, was confronted and threatened by angry locals after wearing her burkini on the beach according to Channel Seven's program Sunday Night in Australia.

Zeynab, who began wearing the hijab when she was 10, decided to fly to Europe as a peace-keeping gesture to other Muslims after 30 French cities banned women from wearing the full-length swimsuits on public beaches.

The controversial legislation was enforced after the Nice terror attack in July.

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Despite the ban on burkinis, which originate from Australia, being overturned by France's highest administrative court, Zeynab was threatened and told to get off the sands within minutes of her visit to the French Riviera.

She told Australian news programme Sunday Night : "We were threatened by locals to leave the beach and if we didn't they were going to call the police.

"They weren't happy with us being there, even though it was on the beach that the burkini ban was overturned but the locals were not happy."

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She added that other disapproving locals made hand gestures or muttered under their breath when they spotted Zeynab in her blue swimsuit.

"There shouldn't be a connection between terrorism and the burkini and there shouldn't be a connection between terrorism and Islam altogether," she added.

Undeterred by the negative response, Zeynab decided to team up with a local Muslim woman to answer questions about the burkini.

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But as the pair stood holding signs with the slogan 'ask me about my burkini' they were once again met with hostility.

"It's hard to be proud of a country who rejects you and whose laws allow the general public to discriminate against you," frustrated Zeynab added.

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The League of Human Rights asked the Council of State to suspend the burkini ban ruling in the Mediterranean town of Villeneuve-Loubet on the basis that it contravenes civil liberties last month.

It came after images of a Muslim Frenchwoman being ordered to remove her burkini by armed police on Nice beach sparked outrage around the world.

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The court ruled that the burkini ban "seriously, and clearly illegally, breached the fundamental freedoms to come and go, the freedom of beliefs and individual freedom".

Three judges at the Council of State in Paris ruled in favour of an appeal by the Human Rights League (LDH) and Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).