| Mustafa Ramid | |
| Office: | Minister of Justice and Liberties |
| Term Start: | 3 January 2012 |
| Term End: | 25 March 2017 |
| Primeminister: | Abdelilah Benkirane |
| Predecessor: | Mohamed Taieb Naciri |
| Successor: | Mohamed Aujjar |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament for Casablanca |
| Term Start2: | 1997 |
| Party: | Justice and Development Party |
| Birth Place: | Sidi Bennour, Morocco |
| 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. Between 3 January 2012 and 25 March 2017, he had served as 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]