Syria’s former Assad-era interior minister, Mohammad al-Shaar, has reportedly surrendered himself to the country’s new transitional government on Tuesday, Report informs via The New Arab.

In a video clip shared online, al-Shaar can be seen arriving in a car accompanied by mediators.

In the footage, one of the mediators introduces him and says that his “dignity must be preserved and he must be appreciated for handing himself over”, and encourages former senior figures from the Assad regime to follow suite.

The former minister reportedly stressed that the ministry of interior “was not responsible for unofficial and security prisons, but only official ones”, according to Al-Arabiya.