A court in France will decide today whether to overturn the ban on women wearing a burkini.

The ruling follows the release of photos of French police forcing a woman, wearing the full-body swimsuit, to undress on a beach in the south of the country at gunpoint.

A court in Nice upheld the ban this week, but France's Highest Administrative court will make a final decision today, after an appeal by the Human Rights League and an anti Islamophobia group.

The full body swimsuits are banned in around 30 French Towns.