Each of the 24 men who appeared in court on Tuesday afternoon faces one rioting charge.
The maximum penalty for the offence is seven years' jail and caning.
The case will be mentioned again on December 17.
In the meantime, the Law Society's pro-bono services are looking to offer legal aid to the accused through their volunteer lawyers.
So far, more than 10 lawyers have indicated they are willing to do so.
The 24 were among the 28 arrested in the riot. The other four -- a Singapore permanent resident, two Bangladeshi nationals and an Indian national -- were subsequently released after they were found to have nothing to do with the incident.
The riot, the first in Singapore in over four decades, came after a fatal bus accident involving 33-year-old Indian worker Sakthivel Kumaravelu at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road.
Some 400 people were involved in the riot. Vehicles were set on fire, and emergency services workers were injured.
- CNA/ac
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