Former Syrian Interior Minister Mohammed Al -Shaar hand over to the new authorities

The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday that a former minister of the interior during the era of former President Bashar al -Assad handed himself one of the most prominent figures that the new authorities have been suspended so far.

“The Minister of the Interior in the government of the former regime, Muhammad al -Shaar, delivered himself to the Public Security Department,” the ministry said in a statement.

The slogan imposed by the United States and the European Union assumed sanctions, the interior portfolio between 2011 and 2018 at the height of the 13 -year -old Syrian war.

The security forces of the new Syrian authorities that overthrew Assad late last year, are looking for the slogan and “raiding sites that were hidden in the past days,” according to the Ministry of Interior.

Since 2011, the slogan has been subject to European Union sanctions because of its involvement in “violence against the demonstrators” who went to the streets demanding democracy that year.

The suppression of peaceful protests resulted in a complex civil war that killed more than 500,000 people and displaced millions of Syrians inside and outside the country.

Muhammad al -Shaar was among the senior officials, including Assad, who were imposed on the United States in 2011 “to increase pressure on the Syrian government to end its use of violence against its people and start moving to a democratic system that protects the rights of the Syrian people,” according to the US Treasury at the time.