ISLAMABAD – Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has locked Maryam Nawaz’spage following “abusive edits”.

The page had been locked for one year post “abusive edits”. “This is notthe first time her page has been locked. However, her page has not beenlocked for this long before.

Tweaks included Maryam being introduced as a “politician and criminal” from“Pakistani politician”. Many attempted to insert terms including “criminal”in her description and biography. “People added criminal multiple times inthe lead section and tried to change her birth year from 1973 to 1960. Theinformation present in the lead section appears in the Google knowledgegraph, next to the search result.

“Maryam’s Wikipedia profile has been getting 1,000 unique hits sinceJanuary. We received around 15,000 unique hits yesterday,” Saqib an expertassociated with the website said attributing the increased interest to theJuly 6 Avenfield verdict.

An accountability court hearing the Avenfield reference against the Shariffamily on Friday handed down former prime minister Nawaz Sharif a 10-yearjail term. The court also sentenced Maryam to seven years. Her husband,Muhammad Safdar was also ordered jailed for one year. The court alsoslapped £8 and £2 million fines on Nawaz and Maryam respectively andordered the properties to be forfeited in favour of the federal government.