Mustafa Ramid | |
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Minister of Justice and Liberties | |
Assumed office 3 January 2012 | |
Monarch | Mohammed VI |
Prime Minister | Abdelilah Benkirane |
Preceded by | Mohamed Taieb Naciri |
Member of Parliament for Casablanca | |
Assumed office 1997 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1959 Sidi Bennour, Morocco |
Political party | Justice and Development Party |
Residence | Marrakech |
Alma mater | Polytechnique benguerir |
Occupation | Politician, Lawyer |
Mustafa Ramid or Mustapha Ramid (born 1959 in Sidi Bennour, Morocco) is a Moroccan politician, and lawyer from the Justice and Development Party. On 3 January 2012, he became Minister of Justice and Liberties in Abdelilah Benkirane's government. [1] [2]
Having served as the defense lawyer for Islamist Hassan al-Kattani, Ramid played an important role in achieving the pardon of Kattani and other Islamists along with promises for the renunciation of violence and extremism. [3] [4]
On July 7, 2015, during an interview on Chada FM radio, he advised homosexuals to change their sex to avoid problems. [5] In September 2017, when questioned by a journalist on the rejection of the UN recommendations relating to the decriminalization of homosexuality by Morocco, he replied: "Enough is enough. Everyone gives importance to this homosexuality and wants to talk about it. These people are rubbish", and attracting the wrath of several Moroccan associations. He persisted a few days later, qualifying homosexuality as "sexual deviance" and affirming that it "remains a crime punished by Moroccan law and is moreover not acceptable by our society". [6]