This morning’s narrative: The latest Amnesty International report on so-called “forced disappearances” in connection with Egypt’s ongoing anti-terrorism campaign is driving the narrative on Egypt in the international press this morning. Coverage from BBC is pretty typical of how the story is playing. The Beeb’s lede: “Egypt’s security services have forcibly disappeared and tortured hundreds of people in the past year in an effort to wipe out dissent, a rights group says. Students, political activists and protesters — some as young as 14 — have vanished without a trace, according to a new report by Amnesty International.”

Meanwhile:

Wapo on Egypt’s peace initiative: The Washington Post’s “Washington Wire” blog carries a piece by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Aaron David Miller on the Egyptian initiative to bring Israel and Palestine back to the bargaining table. It’s a useful (more skeptical) counterpoint to the views out of Tel Aviv we’ve covered in the past couple of days.

The Washington Post has also picked up on Al Masry Al Youm’s apology for an editorial cartoon that made light of [redacted] harassment.

Cop sentenced in beating death: Wire reports from AFP and Reuters are earning fairly wide (if perfunctory) coverage on the sentencing of a police officer to a seven-year prison term in the beating death of a man who had been in custody in Luxor last November. The original death prompted riots at the time. (Five low-ranking members of the police service were sentenced to three-year terms in the same case, while one officer and four conscripts were acquitted, Ahram Online reports.)

“Turkey’s normalization with Egypt not so easy,” declares Hürriyet Daily News out of Turkey. The takeaway is that we’re not the only ones who see the meddling of ‘foreign fingers’: “The coup that ousted Morsi came at a moment when Erdoğan and his government were facing massive protests in weeks-long rallies in mid-2013, known as the Gezi protests. For Erdoğan, there was no difference between the two processes, apart from the fact that ‘foreign powers’ succeeded in their coup attempts in Egypt but failed in Turkey.”

This? Again? From Reuters: “Egypt Orders Muslim Preachers to Deliver Identical Weekly Sermons”