Mustafa Ramid
Minister of Justice and Liberties
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 January 2012
Monarch	Mohammed VI
Prime Minister	Abdelilah Benkirane
Preceded by	Mohamed Taieb Naciri
Member of Parliament for Casablanca
Incumbent
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, 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]

Homophobia

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]