I always hear the the Falun Gong are a cult, but I never really hear what makes it a cult. I skimmed the Wikipedia page and it only really said that Falun Gong is a spiritual movement. The oppression of them seems kinda bad in my opinion, but I am very uninformed.
Edit: thanks very much to everyone who replied
The wiki page is carefully cultivated to whitewash them. They believe in shit like race science, that homosexuality is a disease introduced to destroy the spirit, faith healing, etc. Their leader did a pretty deranged interview with Time in the late 90s where he talked about his beliefs in like alien shit, it got wild.
EDIT: Rationalwiki is absolute libshit but they're pretty good at summarized takedowns of pseudoscientific cults. Long and short is that they're another iteration of millenarian Chinese folk religions and that's why the CPC views them as dangerous, they have a habit of undermining national stability.
You can't tell me this whole interview isn't a Felix bit