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An arrest warrant has been issued in the U.S. for Brandon Vaughan of Ottawa after he failed to show up in a Washington, D.C., courtroom to face charges of assault and hate crime.

Vaughan, 23, was to have been appeared on a felony arraignment Tuesday morning for his alleged role in the beating of a Palestinian man at a March 2017 demonstration in Washington.

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With Vaughan a no-show, the court issued a bench warrant for his arrest, said William Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Vaughan is one of three men charged in the attack on Kamal Nayfeh outside the annual meeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference. Nayfeh, a 55-year-old community college professor from North Carolina, needed 18 stitches to close a cut above his eye after he was punched, kicked and pummelled with flagpoles in the widely publicized attack.

Also charged in the assault were another Canadian, Yosef Steynovitz, 32, of Thornhill, Ont., and Rami Lubranicki, 59, of Howell, N.J. All three men are due back in court on July 31, Miller said.