There are people who just want their loved ones home, and people who are just hoping that someone coming out can tell them something about their own disappeared loved ones - maybe they saw them or heard something about them in captivity, even if it's bad news, it's an answer, you know? We're waiting. We're used to waiting. We're used to betrayal and loss. But we shouldn't have to be. And you know, people won't care. People don't consider that there are innocent people held captive in those prisons and who knows where else, that innocent people are disappeared and we never find out what happened to them.
And from a political perspective (and it's hard to consider academic perspectives right now watching this), doing this when Zubeidi is due for release is a high risk strategy.
PIJ have done their best to sabotage this and it's working.