Sure it's a risk to Juan, but there is no way of saying that it is more a risk than being unknown. Is it not likely that Castro already knows of Juan's attempts to get asylum, seeing as how Clinton's INS was liberally sprinkled with people keeping Cuba's most famous murderer in the know?
And once public, it may save Juan, as the glare of publicity has sometimes helped save the persecuted from harsh regimes.
So -- Hooray for Larry Klayman bringing this disgrace forward, and may those who aided and abetted the kidnapping of Elian and ignored Juan's pleas themselves come to know what imprisonment means.