Ethiopian reporter Argaw Ashine has told the BBC he has fled his country because he was cited in a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks last month.He said he was interrogated by officials seeking the identity of his government source referred to in a 2009 cable about press harassment.”It was a bit scary… not a wise idea to stay in such a scenario,” he said.Wikileaks says the cable does not cite Mr Argaw as a US embassy informant and “no journalistic source is named”.But the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says it is the first instance in which a citation in a Wikileaks cables has caused direct repercussions for a journalist.”The threat we sought to avert through redactions of initial Wikileaks cables has now become real,” Joel Simon, the executive director of the US-based media watchdog said in a statement.”A citation in one of these cables can easily provide repressive governments with the perfect opportunity to persecute or punish journalists and activists,” he said.Ethiopian government spokesman Shimellis Kemal told the BBC the country’s laws gave “protection for journalists not to disclose the sources of their information”