Mustafa Ramid or Mustapha Ramid (born 1959 in
Sidi Bennour
Sidi Bennour (Berber languages, Berber: ⵙⵉⴷⵉ ⴱⵏⵏⵓⵕ, Arabic: سيدي بنور) is a city in Sidi Bennour Province, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. Historically speaking, the name derives from the name of a famous sufi saint called Abi ...
,
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
) is a Moroccan politician, lawyer from the
Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being:
* Justice and Development Party (Morocco)
* Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
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. On 3 January 2012, he became Minister of Justice and Liberties in
Abdelilah Benkirane
Abdelilah Benkirane ( ar, عبد الإله بنكيران, born 2 April 1954) is a Moroccan politician who was Prime Minister of Morocco from November 2011 to March 2017. After having won a plurality of seats in the 2011 parliamentary election ...
's government.
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
Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied share ...
.
Homophobia
On July 7, 2015, during an interview on Chada FM radio, he advised homosexuals to change their sex to avoid problems. 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".
[Marocco World News, Amira El Masaiti ]
Mustapha Ramid, the Human Rights Minister Who Doesn’t Like Gays
October 13, 2017.
References
External links
Ministry of Justice and Liberties
Living people
Moroccan Muslims
Government ministers of Morocco
People from Sidi Bennour
20th-century Moroccan lawyers
Moroccan activists
1959 births
University of Hassan II Casablanca alumni
Justice and Development Party (Morocco) politicians
21st-century Moroccan lawyers
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