crypto and law enforcement

In June, four people were arrested for allegedly producing the illegal newspaper "radikal" in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. One of the main reasons for imprisonment was that they refused to decrypt the disks found with them. The Attorney at the Federal Supreme Court now claims that three disks have been partially decrypted, but does not reveal the texts to the defense counsel because that could be "a danger to the investigations". The fact that the accused did not help in decryption is seen as an indicator for danger of collusion, so they will remain imprisonned on remand. It seems that these four people will face several years of imprisonment mainly because one of them chose a weak passphrase.