BOSTON – A state-run Iraqi television station is airing announcements asking for the release of American journalist Jill Carroll, who was abducted last month.

The spots, which include interviews with Carroll’s mother and the Iraqi politician she was scheduled to meet the day she was kidnapped, began running on Tuesday night, said David Cook, Washington bureau chief of the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, for which Carroll was reporting.

The ads, which run 60 seconds and 90 seconds, were produced by Monitor staffers in Iraq, with assistance from CNN. They were paid for with donations and are being aired free of charge on state-run Iraqiya TV.

Carroll, 28, was abducted in Baghdad on Jan. 7. Her kidnappers have threatened to kill her if their demands to release all Iraqi women from prison are not met by Feb. 26.

Carroll grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich., and graduated from the University of Massachusetts. She reported on Maine’s congressional delegation and covered Washington, D.C., for the Bangor Daily News through States News Service between August 1999 and June 2000. She later worked as a reporting assistant for The Wall Street Journal before moving to Jordan and launching her freelance career in 2002. Most recently, she was working for The Christian Science Monitor.