Judith Kelly lives in Arlington, VA, and facilitates nonviolence trainings as the DC Metro Area Regional Associate for Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service. She is a member of St. Aloysius Parish in Washington, DC. She has traveled in Cuba, but not to Guantanamo Bay.

As an activist with the School of the Americas Watch movement, Kelly served three months in federal prison for a misdemeanor trespass onto a military base. She can only imagine the psychological damage that all the Guantanamo prisoners have suffered from years of confinement without processing. On January 11, 2008, Kelly represented prisoner # 556 Abdullah Mohammad Khan, a 36-year-old Uzbek who was born in Afghanistan. “I carried Abdullah Mohammad Khan’s habeas petition from the Supreme Court to the federal courthouse in January 2007, dressed in an orange jumpsuit and black hood, “ she says. “In 2008 I again took Abdullah Mohammad Khan’s name and entered the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court. After nearly 30 hours in detention, I was able to raise his name before the Superior Court judge and thereby symbolically raise the issue of the unprocessed prisoners at Guantanamo within the US court system.”

"I will join the fast for my prisoner, Abdullah Mohammad Khan, who in June was moved to Afghanistan," says Kelly. "God only knows what he's been through, and may be suffering now. For him and all who have endured this unconscionable treatment, I will offer up these days in remembrance and in hope of a real policy change."