Articles by Worthington have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Huffington Post,[4] AlterNet, ZNet, the Future of Freedom Foundation and Amnesty International, and Qatar-based Al Jazeera.

[citation needed] In 2009, Worthington and Polly Nash co-directed Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo, a 75-minute documentary about the Guantánamo detainees.

[12][13] The film focuses on the cases of United Kingdom citizen Moazzam Begg, and Omar Deghayes and Shaker Aamer, legal residents of the UK.

[1][17][18] On 16 June 2009, Worthington revealed new information on the death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi a former US ghost prisoner who died in a Libyan jail.

[19] In 2010, Amnesty International was criticised for its partnership with Cageprisoners' Moazzam Begg by Gita Sahgal, its former Gender Unit head.