U.S. says Egypt arrests make it difficult to move beyond crisis


  • World
  • Friday, 12 Jul 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Politically motivated arrests in Egypt make it difficult to see how the country will be able to move beyond its current political crisis, a State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday.

"The arrests we have seen over the past several days targeting specific groups are not in line with the national reconciliation that the interim government and the military say they are pursuing," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a daily briefing.

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