Iranians abroad in countries like Canada, Spain and France protested in support of people inside Iran. The dentistry students of Tabriz University gathered and chanted to protest the arrest of students by Iran's government police. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the Chief Justice of Iran, said, "[police officers] did not sleep last night and the nights before ... and they must be thanked."[97] On the same day, the Organizing Council of Oil Contract Workers said: "We support the people's struggles against organized and everyday violence against women and against the poverty and hell that dominates the society".[98]