Activists said that painter Fadi Abdullah Murad died under torture in Assad’s prisons in Damascus. Murad, 34, is from of the city of Homs, and was arrested in August while returning from his work. Wael Kaston, also a painter from Homs, died in Assad’s prisons in June 2012. Many peaceful activists died recently under torture in the Assad’s prisons, especially in the branches of Military Intelligence, including the civil rights activist Abdulhadi Al Sheikh Awad, lawyer Maan Ghonaimi, and the lawyer Burhan Sakkal. (Source: Al Arabiya + Syrian Coalition)