April 29, 2021 DEPARTMENT of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Thursday, April 29, 2021, expressed support for a bill seeking to criminalize “red-tagging.” At present, Guevarra said the charges that may be filed against a person linking others to the communist movement are libel, defamation, threat and coercion. He said recent reports of red-tagging have “become quite disturbing.” “In the past few months, medyo sunod-sunod ang reklamo about red-tagging and people have raised their voice against it, so might as well have one because the frequency of this act loosely called ‘red-tagging’ has become quite disturbing,” Gueverra said in a television interview. Red-tagging, according to Senate Bill 2121 filed by Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, refers to the “act of labeling, vilifying, branding, naming, accusing, harassing, persecuting, stereotyping, or caricaturing” individuals, groups, or organizations as “state enemies, left-leaning, subversives, communists, or terrorists as part of a counter-insurgency or anti-terrorism strategy or program,” by any state actor, such as law enforcement agent, paramilitary, or military personnel.