I disagree with the view that employees of civil institutions from the Assad era should automatically be excluded.
This person, for example—I don’t know him—but the article says he has a technical background: He was responsible for communicating his ministry’s perspective to the public through SANA.
Unless a specific accusation is proven, the default, in my humble opinion, should be reconciliation—keeping them in their roles, or even promoting them in the future if they prove competent.
Exclusion ignores the known reality that Assad’s regime was built on coercion, intimidation, and corruption.
Opening a new page with those bureaucrats benefits everyone.