A Danish MP was banned from Facebook after posting two images on his page featuring female nudity.

Uffe Elbæk, a former Minister of Culture, uploaded a picture showing a female nude sculpture alongside a famous 1969 shot of Danish artist Lene Adler Petersen walking nude through the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.

He subsequently posted them to Twitter without incident.

Mr Elbæk, leader of the centre-left Alternative Party, told TV2: "I think they are fantastic photos because they are about nudity and power.

Following the ban being issued for breaching the site's rules on naked images, Mr Elbæk commented: "They [Facebook] can of course say that I can just refrain from using [the photos]. But Facebook has gotten so big that it is almost a monopoly."

The politician's ban from the social network proved to be only temporary, however.

Last month, Facebook overturned a decision to censor a famous 1972 photo of a naked Vietnamese girl escaping a napalm attack after a ground swell of protest in Norway.

Responding to the protests, Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg posted the historic image on Facebook stating: "Facebook is making a mistake when it censors these types of photos. It contributes to limiting the freedom of expression

"I support a healthy, open and free debate – online and elsewhere. But I say no to this type of censorship."

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The social network explained its decisions in a statement: "An image of a naked child would normally be presumed to violate our Community Standards, and in some countries might even qualify as child pornography.