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Protesters are set to descend on London’s French embassy today as part of a ‘wear what you want’ demonstration over a ban on 'burkinis' on the country’s beaches.

Outraged activists have organised the demo after being left “disgusted to hear of armed police telling women what they are allowed to wear and making them undress in public”.

A Facebook site set up to advertise the protest invites women to march on the embassy in Knightsbridge.

It reads: “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules....

“Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”

Organisers have also called for others to show solidarity by sharing beach selfies on Twitter.

It comes after images emerged of police officers with guns surrounding a woman wearing a headscarf on a beach in Nice and ordering her to remove.

A second woman also told how she was fined €11 for wearing a hijab on the coast in Cannes – before being subject to “racist abuse” by crowds of locals.

Last week, Nice became the latest French resort to ban the burkini.

Like many other holiday hotspots, the city barred clothing that “overtly manifests adherence to a religion at a time when France and places of worship are the target of terrorist attacks”.

The ban by several towns will come before France’s highest administrative court today following an appeal by the Human Rights League.

The organisation is set to challenge the decision by a lower court in Nice, which upheld a ban on the outfit by the town of Villeneuve-Loubet.