Source: Yahoo! News
Wire Service: AP
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041013/ap_on_re_eu/armenia_jehovah_s_witnesses_1
On October 13, 2004 the Associated Press reported, "Authorities in Armenia registered the Jehovah's Witnesses on Wednesday, allowing the religious group to operate in the Caucasus Mountain nation after years of debate and denial. The Jehovah's Witnesses first appeared in Armenia in 1988, after a devastating earthquake in what was then still a Soviet republic. But the group was unable to win registration after the nation became independent in the 1991 Soviet collapse. Legalizing the Jehovah's Witnesses was one of the main conditions set out by the Council of Europe when the continent's leading human rights organization granted Armenia membership two years ago."